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Gold Looking 1977 Penny *with Better Pictures

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 Posted 05/18/2013  7:51 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add solotime to your friends list
That's what I'm wondering too, is it the light or not. But I see what you're saying, it can be just a basic gold plated penny. I would really need a better picture to tell.
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 Posted 05/19/2013  12:44 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add perfessor to your friends list
Is that a 1944-S? Maybe it is a rare off-metal gold 1944-S penny. Wait a minute, they didn't make any gold coins in 1944. Scratch that.
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 Posted 05/19/2013  10:49 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add theworstever to your friends list
That's the real color. No light tricks. I forgot to say that it is a 1977. It's not spray painted. Sorry ill have a better picture when I get back home.
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 Posted 05/19/2013  12:49 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add numismo to your friends list
Better living through chemistry.
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 Posted 05/19/2013  2:35 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add solotime to your friends list
*Yawns*
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 Posted 05/21/2013  11:00 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add willman36 to your friends list
It may have been dipped in gold and sold through a coin club.

It's definitely nothing special though, sorry :(
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 Posted 05/22/2013  2:08 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add solotime to your friends list
True @willamn. It's just we want and update about it from him.
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 Posted 05/29/2013  04:16 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add theworstever to your friends list
I've searched everything on the web, and the closest thing in color is gold coins. The chemistry experiments on pennies don't come close to the color and shine of my penny. I guess next is a scale.
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 Posted 05/29/2013  10:17 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Conder101 to your friends list
My guess is it will weigh very close to 3.1 grams
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 Posted 05/29/2013  11:05 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add just carl to your friends list

Take any penny from before 82 and polish with almost any auto polish and it will look like that. At some places where they are demonstrating an auto polish, they use Copper Cents since they are easily made to look like that. And no additional weight from plating.
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 Posted 05/29/2013  12:19 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add biokemist6 to your friends list
It has been electroplated with gold post-mint, there were no gold coins struck in the US during the period of 1934-1983.
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 Posted 05/30/2013  10:10 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add solotime to your friends list
I still going with polished.
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 Posted 06/01/2013  12:57 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add theworstever to your friends list
I finally got back home. Took a second look at my gold penny and I don't know if it just me, but the face doesn't look right compared to other Lincoln's from the same date. The hair, hairline, nose, ear. They don't look the same. I'll try to take a little bit better pictures.

The face doesn't look right. The hair, hairline, nose, ear. They look different from pennies from the same year. There are also some pretty deep scratches on the face and there is no color change. Next is to weigh it but I don't have the tools or knowledge to discern any differences. I hope someone can help. Thank you

Gold-Looking-1977-Penny--*with-Better-Pictures

Gold-Looking-1977-Penny--*with-Better-Pictures

Gold-Looking-1977-Penny--*with-Better-Pictures

Gold-Looking-1977-Penny--*with-Better-Pictures

Gold-Looking-1977-Penny--*with-Better-Pictures

Gold-Looking-1977-Penny--*with-Better-Pictures

Gold-Looking-1977-Penny--*with-Better-Pictures
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 Posted 06/01/2013  08:37 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add JJHFL to your friends list
I see tons of copper bleeding through all over the place
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 Posted 06/01/2013  3:39 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add theworstever to your friends list
Thank you I can't tell the difference.
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