1955 silver coin

By the way......

Yep, if the weight's "normal", then it's not likely to be a "wrong planchet" (like a 10¢ blank falling into a batch of 1¢ blanks). It'll most likely be a normal copper cent that's been deliberately plated, perhaps by someone hoping to pass it off as a 10¢ coin, or maybe by someone simply testing out their electroplating gear.

Check the rim and edge; there's often a small unplated spot where the electrode was attached.

Interesting. Note the circled area.



There is copper underneath. What you have here is foil from a cigarette package, I'm guessing from the colour. When you take the white paper backing off of it, what you have is a very thin, very moldable foil left over which is very easy to place onto a coin, much like gold leaf. I've seen this done before.

Thanks for posting and jogging my memory. This is perhaps a solution for anyone that has one of those Shell Prime Ministers sets the plating has come off of.

In my second year of college chemistry, we did several plating experiments and I silverplated a new penny. Maybe this coin has a similar history. I kept mine.

Interesting find! It definitly has some sort of think foil over it

I've heard of this being done by dipping pennies in mercury as well, not sure if that's the case here but it might be a good idea not to handle the coin too much if you're not sure.

Foiled again... lol I remember that foil...covered my fridge in it!sure looked retro after that