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A Steel cent should weigh 2.7 grams, Copper should weigh 3.11 grams.
In my opinion, it is plated with something, but the weight is a little off, or your scale is off.
Let us know what you find out about it.
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Pretty simple, if it's steel, you can easily tell with a fridge magnet. It's obviously too heavy to be aluminum. It's the right weight for a copper cent. I've heard of a few stray cents getting loose without the final copper plating and they sort of look like that if you google it. Another possibility was the copper plating was removed (i.e. electrolysis). I also found this tidbit out there in the web (shrugs shoulders). Quote:
There are different ways to change the color of pennies the easiest is to just heat them, lay a penny on your hot wood burner for a while and it will turn a dark gray/silver color. |
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This is her husband. So far it didn't react to a fridge magnet. Tomorrow we will get a good magnet and see.
As for photoshopping, I can hardly figure out my phone and we have to many other things to do.
As for the electrolysis, I didn't see any copper under the surface where it was scratched. Unfortunately the photo we posted was resized so it could be uploaded.
We will do some more work on it tomorrow, but keep the ideas coming. (This is a 1975 and they didn't clad the copper until 82?)
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(This is a 1975 and they didn't clad the copper until 82?) Yes, copper-plated zinc cents started mid-1982 so this should be 95% copper. To me, there are only two feasible possibilities: - A well-executed plating job - A cent struck on a planchet intended for a foreign coin The second could be quite valuable so I think it's worth investigating further. In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020
In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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I think that I am leaning toward the unverified cent (s) that allegedly made it through in 1975. The 1974 were mostly melted.
This is a great way to cut my teeth in the realm of coins.
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I think that I am leaning toward the unverified cent (s) that allegedly made it through in 1975. The 1974 were mostly melted. It cannot be made of Aluminum, it's too heavy. We see these here all the time, different years. Many, many cents were plated and used in jewelry, bracelets, belts, and things like that. There is an extremely good chance that is what you have. |
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Oh yeah, I forgot to add that the first possibility I gave is the most likely and second is much less likely.
Also, I didn't include aluminum cents because the weight given already disqualified that possibility.
In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020
In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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03/11/2017 01:39 am
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Sounds like you really really really want it to be a 1974 aluminum cent that somehow got a 1975 date. I'd get it weighed on a precision scale, but the stated weight so far eliminates the aluminum idea. Besides, do you really want it to be aluminum? You won't be able to keep it. The U.S. government recalled all aluminum cents. All are considered government property and subject to seizure by the U.S. Secret Service.
Turning a Penny Silver? So if your silver penny isn't a 1944 steel cent or planchet error or aluminum 1974, then in all likelihood, you have a penny that has been plated with silver, pewter, or mercury.
Countless pennies have been altered in appearance with the application of silver-colored (as well as gold-colored) metals. Whether done as a science experiment in school or purely for the sake of novelty, plating pennies has long been a popular thing to do.
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My husband is looking at it right now under my microscope and says that there are a couple of tiny gouges in the beard and it looks like the same colored silver underneath it as well. Consideder that it may have been plated AFTER it got it's gouges/hits/scratches. |
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Curious--how did you acquire this coin?
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Pillar of the Community
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 and aluminum has to be ruled out because of the weight. Keep up posted but I am thinking it's copper plated. |
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Pillar of the Community
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clarifying....copper, plated with something.
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Pillar of the Community
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clarifying....copper, plated with something. Excellent example of why we use punctuation! |
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Exactly what I was gonna write until I saw conder already posted it. The gouges and hits were all there and then this Cent was plated with whatever it was plated with. Here's a '73 D with nicks and scratches all over and no signs of copper showing thru. Weight is 3.2g  Edited by Slamnbass
03/11/2017 4:35 pm
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At this point, I'm just interested in watching this. Obviously, it's most likely plated, but the hope of anything other than that is causing suspense.  |
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