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And ty for help. Just not good with this stuff
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 to the forum! That's a 1978 Philadelphia Mint coin, no P marks on cents til this year. The silver is a plated coin, nickel, sometimes chrome, are novelty coins and not collectable or worth any premium value...have some in goldtone (what Wallyworld watches are plated with), the 1943 steel cent plated with copper. Sometimes this was a high school lab project!  |
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It's not worth anything but it's a nice looking coin. I would keep it just because it's different.
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 with Crazyb0 ,it's a plated coin. I would keep it it's a good conversation piece! |
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Speculation speculation speculation ... Could be plated could be silver could be silver plated over gold . In other words until you have the coin looked at and tested by a real expert then No one on here can actually tell you what kind of coin it really is without testing the coin Ladyluck86 but if you don't mind someone guessing what the outer layer is for you ... Well then good luck with that .
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No, it's not speculation, it's fact. Regardless of what it was plated with, it's a damaged ordinary 1978 cent (Philadelphia added the P mintmark to cents in 2017 in commemoration of the 225th anniversary of the mint).
The plating is a few micrograms of whatever precious or non-precious metal and adds no value.
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And as noted it is just plated with something. However, yes it is worth keeping as a novelty. |
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It is immaterial what the plating is. A novelty is just that. A novelty.
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@Ladyluck86
I generally agree with those who have said it's plated and has no added value. However, do you have a way to weigh it to 1/10th of a gram? The weight can tell you a lot about what happened to coins.
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A 0.1g scale isn't accurate enough. In fact, no scale will help, since the tolerance of the planchet itself is so large as to swamp the additional weight of say silver vs. chromium vs. nickel.
You need a jeweler or (friendly) we-buy-gold place to shoot it with an XRF gun. Even that will be iffy, as it will penetrate into the copper base. But it should report a significant % of whatever the plating is.
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The weight of plating would be negligible so +/-0.1 gram scale accuracy is perfectly fine. If the coin weighs ~3.1 grams, then it is safe to assume that it is a normal bronze cent electroplated with an unknown metal post-mint. The composition of the plating itself is completely irrelevant.
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A lot of gunsmiths use electroless silver and gold to fill in the writing on the barrel, etc...
It looks like that is what was used on the coin.
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