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New Member
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Valued Member
United States
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Is that green color from your camera or the coin?
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New Member
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Its the camera and from me editing the photo sorry its silver in color
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Valued Member
United States
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I still see build up in some areas, so I am going to go with some kind of plating. A couple details strike me the same as my reprocessed steelies. If that's accurate, it only leaves the weight in question.
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New Member
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I wish I could take a better picture.
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New Member
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New Member
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Well I took some more photos and played with the image editor some, does that help any?
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Valued Member
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anything is possible if you feel there is a chance you can send it in for certification and if not you can do the ring test.
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New Member
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What is the ring test? Also what is a good trustworthy place to send in for certification? I am really new to that sort of thing.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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If it is the size of a normal cent it simply cannot be silver. Silver is more dense than copper so it would weigh more than a cent not less.
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Pillar of the Community
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Just a thought... How accurate is the scale you used to measure the weight. Some inexpensive scales can be notoriously inaccurate when weighing something as small as a cent. Did you compare the reading of your coin on the scale to a known copper cent? Just curious, it could help with figuring out what your coin actually is.
Dave
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New Member
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We used the scale at a couple coin shops and also at my local pawnshop where they buy jewelry, and also weighed a regular penny on the same scale to see. It weighed 1.9g
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Pillar of the Community
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A very interesting and puzzling coin
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Pillar of the Community
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A photo of the edge of your coin next to a normal cent might be helpful.
Ps.it is too heavy and 4 years too late to be struck on an aluminum plnachet.
Edited by DrDon
07/14/2013 5:48 pm
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New Member
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Hello there.
I just joined the forum to respond to this post.
I too have one of those pennies, and I have had it since I was a kid... never understanding it, I put it away in my junk coin collection for years and years. Every now and then I have searched the internet attempting to find some information about it, and Today! Here is this post.
Sadly, because I was a kid at the time, I used a nail to scrap away at what I thought was a layer of corrosion and dirt, it's the same silver color through and through. Everything is fine with my version of the coin, just scratched up on the surface really bad, both sides too.
Any luck finding what this could be?
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