Overdipped?

[declanwmagee 122]

Is this what happens when someone overdips silver? Looks like a drip...

[Nick 329]

Is this what happens when someone overdips silver? Looks like a drip...

The coin itself looks a bit polished. The feature on the edge looks like a bit of metal overflow that escaped the collar and has folded back over the milled edge.

[Peckris 579]

Is this what happens when someone overdips silver? Looks like a drip...

No. You can't get anything extra from dipping apart from reduced value

[declanwmagee 122]

Is this what happens when someone overdips silver? Looks like a drip...

The coin itself looks a bit polished. The feature on the edge looks like a bit of metal overflow that escaped the collar and has folded back over the milled edge.

Oh, well, that's a plus - at least it's not post-mint. I'm sure it has had a buff too, Nick - probably by the dipper. An overdipping drip would have been worse though, I think.

Just one of my many duff-photo gambles that didn't pay off!

[Coinery 1,156]

Is this what happens when someone overdips silver? Looks like a drip...

That's a filed solder blob, surely?

[declanwmagee 122]

Now what would someone be doing blobbing solder on a coin for? To cover up an edge knock, so you think?

[Nick 329]

Now what would someone be doing blobbing solder on a coin for? To cover up an edge knock, so you think?

Easily removed if you have a soldering iron.

[Gary1000 41]

Now what would someone be doing blobbing solder on a coin for? To cover up an edge knock, so you think?

Easily removed if you have a soldering iron.

Probably ex mount. A soldering iron is more likey to make an even bigger mess. If it solder it will have alloyed with the silver.

Edited June 12, 2013 by Gary1000

[Nick 329]

Now what would someone be doing blobbing solder on a coin for? To cover up an edge knock, so you think?

Easily removed if you have a soldering iron.

Probably ex mount. A soldering iron is more likey to make an even bigger mess. If it solder it will have alloyed with the silver.

Really? I can't imagine any soldering iron getting anywhere near hot enough to melt the silver so that it would alloy.

[Accumulator 52]

Now what would someone be doing blobbing solder on a coin for? To cover up an edge knock, so you think?

Easily removed if you have a soldering iron.

Probably ex mount. A soldering iron is more likey to make an even bigger mess. If it solder it will have alloyed with the silver.

Really? I can't imagine any soldering iron getting anywhere near hot enough to melt the silver so that it would alloy.

If it is solder, you need an electronic engineer's "solder sucker" to remove it cleanly. A few pounds from RS Components.

[Coinery 1,156]

If it was some sort of soldered fixing, it would have been added using a jewellers blow torch, you can't silver-solder with a soldering iron...it will have alloyed with the milling, if it's solder.

It does look ex-mount, jewellery piece of some sort to me!

[Gary D 76]

Now what would someone be doing blobbing solder on a coin for? To cover up an edge knock, so you think?

Easily removed if you have a soldering iron.

Probably ex mount. A soldering iron is more likey to make an even bigger mess. If it solder it will have alloyed with the silver.

Really? I can't imagine any soldering iron getting anywhere near hot enough to melt the silver so that it would alloy.

That's how solder works, it forms an alloy with the surface of the material being joined. It's not like glue which adheres to any roughness in the surface texture.It actually penetrates to a depth.

[Nick 329]

If it was some sort of soldered fixing, it would have been added using a jewellers blow torch, you can't silver-solder with a soldering iron...it will have alloyed with the milling, if it's solder.

It does look ex-mount, jewellery piece of some sort to me!

Ah I see, so by soldered fixing they mean welded.

[Sword 1,482]

If it is solder, then the person who did it was a bit sloppy as he put the mount on 10:30 rather than 12 o'clock of the coin

[Coinery 1,156]

If it was some sort of soldered fixing, it would have been added using a jewellers blow torch, you can't silver-solder with a soldering iron...it will have alloyed with the milling, if it's solder.

It does look ex-mount, jewellery piece of some sort to me!

Ah I see, so by soldered fixing they mean welded.

Closer to the process of welding than lead soldering, closer still to brazing! The silver solder is designed to melt only fractionally ahead of the silver item itself.

I'm no expert on silver soldering, but I have soldered a couple of split-ring findings in the past. Overcook the heat by the tiniest amount, and the whole thing becomes a molten blob!

[Coinery 1,156]

If it is solder, then the person who did it was a bit sloppy as he put the mount on 10:30 rather than 12 o'clock of the coin

Depends on which side of the coin they wanted to display? Could have been included into a charm bracelet, brooch, etc, doesn't necessarily mean a pendant was its purpose!

I have had endless holed hammereds, where it is the greatest irritation to find the hole doesn't pleasingly align for a necklace.

[Gary D 76]

If it was some sort of soldered fixing, it would have been added using a jewellers blow torch, you can't silver-solder with a soldering iron...it will have alloyed with the milling, if it's solder.

It does look ex-mount, jewellery piece of some sort to me!

Ah I see, so by soldered fixing they mean welded.

Closer to the process of welding than lead soldering, closer still to brazing! The silver solder is designed to melt only fractionally ahead of the silver item itself.

I'm no expert on silver soldering, but I have soldered a couple of split-ring findings in the past. Overcook the heat by the tiniest amount, and the whole thing becomes a molten blob!

The reaction with solder and the parent metal is called wetting.

[Coinery 1,156]

To truly KNOW a dipped coin, I believe you have to have dipped a few yourself, if only as an experiment! The Goddard's Silver Dip, so often talked about on here, is available even in the most basic of hardware stores!

I really recommend dipping a dozen junk coins, .925, .500, even CuNi, and see what happens! Even leave an example in for 20 mins, and then look at it...the mystery of dipped coins will be revealed in a simple half-hour tinker!

Really worth the £4 for the dip, and the fiver's worth of coins!

[Peckris 579]

To truly KNOW a dipped coin, I believe you have to have dipped a few yourself, if only as an experiment! The Goddard's Silver Dip, so often talked about on here, is available even in the most basic of hardware stores!

I really recommend dipping a dozen junk coins, .925, .500, even CuNi, and see what happens! Even leave an example in for 20 mins, and then look at it...the mystery of dipped coins will be revealed in a simple half-hour tinker!

Really worth the £4 for the dip, and the fiver's worth of coins!

Very true. And then you would discover that dipping CANNOT add metal!