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Valued Member
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i wonder if it is a pattern coin they do stike coins in all metals.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Bid on it. If not to expensive would make a great novelty subject at a bar, coin show or just posting a photo here. Some counterfeit coins are actually rather expensive.
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Sorry guys for not responding in a while. Work has been keeping me busy.
I used the "magnet" test and it failed. It truly was fake. And I tried to get a picture of it but my digital camera would not focus close up. So now I have to read the forums on 'how to take pictures of coins close up.." lol.
Thanks for your input guys
PS. Someone else bid on it.. It went for $10. lol.
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Pillar of the Community
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I saw something like this once, it was a pair of ear rings, with a 1955 cent in them. I bought them for $.50 at an estate sale because I was curious. They cents were shiny silver, because of the same dates, I wouldn't be suprised if that is where your 'steel' cent came from.
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I have to agree with Bryant it maybe struck on wrong planchet we strike a lot of South American&other country's coin's that are steel or nickel silver and other type metals. ***But I wouldn't buy it unless it was graded by a TPG! |
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Amac,  Without knowing specifics such as weight, the coin may just have a drop of mercury spread over the surface. |
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Searching through rolls, I seemed to have found a silver-ish or steel colored 1948 penny. I always hear about that 43 so I was surprised to see a non-copper colored 48. Is this the same deal? I've heard it could also just be off-colored due it sitting next to some other metal or something long enough, but it doesn't seem to have that look. If I test it with a magnetic and it is not magnetic, what's the next test? I'll try to get a pic of it, if even just for laughs. And to save the next person from wasting their time on this same coin!  Edited by st3rling
04/01/2008 6:58 pm
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you could probably weigh the coin to see if it weighs the same as a steel cent. Most likely though, it was an experiment by some kids. Put a copper penny in some solution and out comes a silver looking one.
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I agree kurts but how do you get mercury today. Its been band for 25 yr or so?
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Pillar of the Community
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Amac, dunno...it could've been done years ago and sat around all this time.
I doubt all the mercury would evaporate off.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Just because mercury is not readily available to the general public does not be it cannot be found. Anyone involved in HVAC will have old mercury thermostat switches laying around. Heck, I have a few ounces of mercury that I accumulated for an element collection when I was a kid(yes, I knew what I was doing when I handled it as I have been a chemist-in-training since I got my first chemistry set at age 8  ) |
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Ah...I remember that old chemistry set, and all those "experiments", LOL! Back before the days of rampant litigation, my set actually included a cyanide-based compound!  Ironically, I'm the only one in my family who did not become a chemist. |
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I can leave a copper penny laying directly on my desk for a few months and it will look like this   |
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I'd buy it even if it is fake, as long as it's only a couple bucks. I'd love to have a decent fake. I just bought a copper plated 1943 for fun.
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I have a cent that was chrome-plated. When I first got back inti collecting again, I saw this on ebay, and got it for a saw-buck. I knew it was not real "silver", but I wanted to get it for the rest of my "odd-ball' coin s. Like I said, it is chrome plated, and so is the "Walker" . These things happen because some one gets bored with the run of things, and wonders what would happen IF? Not a bit different that those "gold-plated quarters from the states series. Sure messes up some nice coins. Dick |
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Posted 03/22/2008 6:47 pm
