Too bad there's not enough supply to sell the broken returns as defects instead of forwarding them to someone else (and probably not enough profit margin to justify it either too be honest)
I have a box of capsules this size so I'll throw in a few of them too! The coins weren't damaged at all in shipping. The included caps aren't the standard Airtites so it might be worth hanging on to the scxratched/chipped original cap for full collectible value. Always wear gloves when handling the raw coins, preferably non-powdered latex.
It's a standard 40mm coin so H4 size Airtites are what you want (they'll still rattle a bit in a direct-fit capsule, see further down below these links):
H4 Direct-fit (no foam ring):
40mm w/ black inner ring:
I haven't seen the specs for these anywhere so I pulled out the scale and calipers and
carefully checked two of my six at random (OK, three of them technically belong to someone else). The tolerances are better than the US Mint's allowed deviation for American Silver Eagles (but two is a small sample size). Both were +/-0.01 of each other in each measurement..
Kiwi Farms 1oz Silver Coin (2021)
Weight: 31.16g
Width: 40.18mm
Thickness: 2.55mm
I plugged those KFCoin dimensions into a cylinder volume calculator and I'm worried something might be wrong. Won't know for 100% sure until it can be tested on an XRF (too lazy to do water displacement for better volume measurement) but the KFCoin does not appear to be .9999 Ag. My guess is if these are silver they're ~90%?
For comparison a proof American Silver Eagle is supposed to be .9993 Ag, weigh 31.103g, be 40.6mm wide and 2.98mm thick which makes the (less-than-accurate-for-testing-PM's) cylinder volume 3.756 cubic cm. The KFCoin cylinder volume is 3.2333 cubic cm using the same cylinder calculator. My guess is the blanks were 90% silver but won't know for sure until someone does a water displacement test or better yet finds a shop with a $25k XRF gun and hits it with that. This happens all the time with private mintings, especially first-time private mintings. Hopefully someone can prove me wrong but it doesn't really matter that much though, nobody is buying these for melt value. I might try to video a ping test comparison between the KFCoin and an ASE tomorrow unless somebody beats me to it.
Did somebody say autism? I heard that.
[UPDATE 9/30/21: XRF tested as at least .999 Ag.]
