Any Idea What These Could

[jefflob]

I found these two items while hunting in a Northern Virginia park. Depth of about 5 inches with DFX registering a range from +63 to +95. Seems to be a horse stamped in the center on both the front and back. Each piece is a little more than 1/4 inch thick.

Any thoughts? Most guesses seem to be some kind of game token. That was my first thought as well, but couldn't understand why metal and why so heavy.

 

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[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

Whatever they are they are cool!

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[junkdigger]

I'm thinking these are checkers from an old checkers game. Google searched awhile but I couldn't find anything about metal checkers.But that looks like what you have there.So go find the rest of them!Good luck.

 

[Gigisdiamonds]

Carnival ride tokens? Just a wild guess. I have to say, half the fun of finding cool stuff, is trying to guess what it is and then to do research on it! Hope someone can help you out here!

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Gigi

 

[angel_09]

Since it is metal, try to determine what metal it is. Let us assume it is gold since you said it is heavy. First determine the volume. Get a graduated container with water, check the level of water, then immerse one of it to the container. the level of water will rise, and check how much it is. To determine the volume, get the diameter of your container and multiply it by itself, then multiply it to .7854 and the result will give you tha area. Once you get this area, multiply it again to the amount of rise of water (after you immerse the coin) and this will give you the volume. Once you get the volume multiply it to .2929668 and it will give you the weight of that object. Then check with the periodic table if this belong to gold category. If it is not gold Check its specific gravity (same procedure - get the volume and multiply to specific gravity of your suspected material from periodic table) and you will be able to determine what metal it is.


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[angel_09]

One more thing, if it is an alloy there is another formula in determining it.

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[angel_09]

I forget to mention that once you get the value from your calculation, weigh the coin and check with the calculated values. If the result is almost identical, then you have 99.99% of gold. If it is lesser in weight, say 10 to 20% less, then it is an alloy of gold and other material. If it is more than the calculated value, then it is alloy of Platinum and Gold or higher level metal.

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