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Pillar of the Community
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It certainly is odd. It could be nickel, or acid. We could probably use an expert.
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The plating is gone. If it is zinc, wouldn't take long to change color blue or black. Might be nickel.
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I think it is solid nickel! Can you weigh it? The more I stare at it, I seem to see copper plating under nickel plating. weigh it.
Edited by CoinMasters
04/11/2015 12:20 am
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Pillar of the Community
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This is a Brass-plated penny and a gold-plated nickel.   Edited by CoinMasters
04/11/2015 12:39 am
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  Sorry about the quality of these pics, some of my early work.lol Edited by CoinMasters
04/11/2015 01:34 am
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Pillar of the Community
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Looks to me like it was plated, and some of it started coming off, maybe?
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Go ahead and weight it but you need a VERY accurate scale and don't forget about the mint tolerance of a normal coin. I think it was "striped" of it's copper plating. John1  |
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School science experiment.
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the weight in grams is 2.5
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Pillar of the Community
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Normal weight, accounts for wear and nickel plate. My opinion
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I carefully cleaned it up Please don't do that to any other coins unless you are using acetone or Verdi-Care. If that had been a 2012 cent missing its plating, cleaning it would have reduced the value. 2.5 grams is the accepted weight for this coin. What kind of scale did you weigh it on? |
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ok thanks my son found it with his dimes pile, and why would s1 do that I mean how much could it be worth or even waste there time.  |
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Sorry to get back to you so late, I have been very busy. To answer your your question, when I found my plated nickel, I mentioned it to my neighbor, he said, "I've plated a few of them myself." I asked him how he did it, he said he used to work where they did plating. So I know some are done by opportunists. I don't think there is any added value other than just keeping it in your new collection and enjoying it once in a while. It certainly is different.
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Posted 04/11/2015 12:05 am
smooth in some areas in the middle and have the smaller words still popped out so u can feel the letter when going across the coin carefully if more info or pics needed let me and my son know ty all 
