Strange Mint item ? Or NOT ?

[dooly]

Hi all

 

what do you think of this Real or Not ?

 

 

[RUSS BEGA]

tough to say it looks pretty crude in idea of the composition?

[123cents]

If it is real, It doesn't look very desirable. I have seen some SBA test pieces and they looked pretty cool.

[MunkyMan95]

Looks kind of cheezy. I could make something similar with a pocketful of metal washers and a dremmel tool.

[WoodenJefferson]

Looks like a cut section from a bar of cold rolled steel with a Birnell Hardness Test done to it to determine carbon content/proper heat treatment. The very center of of any formed steel will be the weakest. During production and subsequent heat treatments, impurities migrate to the center, that why it appears that there is an impression dimple there. I don't think this is mint related...

 

But then again, I'm one of those "self proclaimed Experts" who knows everything there is to know about, but yet know nothing.

 

There is some discussion here:

 

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[bsshog40]

Looks like a hunk of steel. Does a magnet stick to it Dooly?

[AegisIII]

I see no reason why a mint test piece (for whatever) would be labeled "test piece."

[carson city]

110% Bogus = Dremel Test Piece !

[ant]

id say ingraved! a dremel spins and a ingraver moves up and down. leaving lil bump pox in the metal. a dremel small tool would leave smooth grooves

 

just stating what i see

[WoodenJefferson]

Your both correct, Dremel makes an engraver (electric) but I would say that the letters & numbers have been engraved by a high speed pnematic engraver, one where the stylus vibrates up and down and peens the surface rather than trenching.

 

Carry on