1955 Silver Coin

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

Nobody seem to have noticed that M$ had a 1955 cent...NOT a 1995...

I believe that was just a typo when typing your user name - he was still pressing the shift key on the keyboard when he typed a 4. No worries.




Right.. I totally missed that when I viewed the coin picture and read the topic name. Were they pre-plated before distribution that year? Or was there something else relevant about the year that you were going to tell us later? You know we're all hungry for information, so please, do tell.

Have to agree with WpgLwr "Cigarette paper foiled".I did this a lot when I was a kid.Sometimes we would have a contest to see which kid's "silver cent" would look like a real minted coin.(If I remember right cig.foil then is still the same used today)