Hello all. New to this forum.
If anyone could help me out with this, it would be greatly appreciated!

What I have are two Richard Nixon "coins".

I believe these to have been minted overseas. The reasoning for the is when toy switch the 5 and 11 around in the date, you get 11/05/68, which is when Tricky Dick was elected. Since Amercia is the only country I know of this use mm/dd/yy, I am assuming this was not done here.

The larger coin, I am pretty confident it is silver, 1oz.

The smaller, gold coin is what is up for debate.

It definately has a decent weight to it.
At the bottom of the reverse is 900 (The silver coin has 1000).

Is that the purity of the metal?

I guess I just really need to know is this coin gold?

Thanks in advance for the help!
Jordan

Reverse pics

Write to Eldon at this Email address...it looks like he's a big collector of memorabilia from the president and has a lot of medals. maybe he'll know about yours.

nixonstuff@hawaii.rr.com

I shall give that a shot.
Thank you!
Jordan

This may not be much help but that's European dating on it and it looks like some German medals of the era.

Eldon really did not have any useful information as to what these may be.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks!
Jordan

Well these things are definately from Europe as gold was not legal to own during the Tricky Dick era in the US. These might be from Germany as earlier suggested, and loosely resemble the Aureus Magnus pieces made in Germany during the 1960's.

It was suggested to me that they were... electrically plated?
I believe that is what I was told. Can anyone tell me what that is?

Electroplating is a method of applying a very thin layer of one metal onto an object made of another metal. In the case of coins, a marking of .900 should refer to the actual metal content. .900 fine is a common fineness of coin metal in gold or silver. The coin shouldn't be marked .900 if it's plated.

I've never seen examples of your coins before. The color of the gold one looks like the color of a .900 fine gold coin, but colors on a computer screen can be deceiving. Have the gold coin checked by a reputable bullion dealer. They're usually listed in the Yellow Pages of local phone books.

That's the problem. Numerous local bullion dealers, coin collectors (including a very big presidential medal collector), jewelers have looked at it and I get different reports. A jeweler suggested the acid test, but she said it will damage them. I would not care if it was gold, because I would sell as bullion. But if it was not gold, well maybe there is some collector value if the right person is found.

Why don't you just do a specific gravity test on it?

I would if I had the tools or knew somebody who did.

Got a high school or college nearby? Talk to the chemisty teacher. The equipment is common place and the procedure isn't difficult. If you lived close to me I could do it.