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About to get odder... my soon to be wife brought home a 1941 wheat from her cash drawer that I have yet to weigh. My Garrett AT Pro says penny, naturally. The toning? Silver, with blackish rainbow effects on reverse. I don't have my jeweler loop but the minute scratches appear to be showing silver. I would say silver, but it looks thicker than a normal penny and doesn't "ring" when dropped. My guess? Plating (maybe foreign planchet?)... anyway pictures and weight to follow tonight after work.
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This is killing me not to know the verdict  |
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This is killing me not to know the verdict
Well, consider that this thread is over a year old, and neither of the two members who posted similar coins have visited CCF since. Sorry.  |
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Well I will say it was a great read for my first day back in a while.
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I too have this same coin! Mine is in mint condition and very pretty...whatever it is?! I found it in some of my deceased mother's items two nights ago. I will start looking for answers!
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I take that steel comment back? Confusion in communication with my dad, sorry. It is, however, magnetic...Going to try to locate a coin dealer in my area.   Edited by thecarpenterswife
02/02/2014 2:23 pm
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Steel is not used in making penny until 1943. It is easy to tell it is steel because it is magnetic. Aluminum is much lighter and silver is heavier than regular copper penny. Just weighting it will tell what it is most likely. If the weight is identical to a regular penny, it is plated by whatever means.
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Added pic above...it is thicker than a regular penny and a regular penny actually "rests" inside the rim of this one?
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I'm in the 'rubbed in Mercury' group. Back in high school (back in the 50's and 60's) when a thermometer got broke in the lab the Mercury ended up going on everybody's pocket change till it was all gone.
Nowadays they'd evacuate the campus, call the HazMat Team and be 'breaking news' on the local TV stations!
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(It could also be a 1941 cent that accidentally went through the Zinc replating process intended for rusty 1943 steel cents. It kinda has that ugly bluish tint to it that is common with those replated coins that show up on late nite TV coin seller infomercials)
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While I wish everyone holding the 'odd' coin has a sanctioned oddity, the skeptic in me thinks folks have plated pennies. Workers for platers have spare time and spare change. Easy for them to make little keepsakes. And in keeping with other members, science classes over the decades have created many 1944 steel pennies and copper 1943s. I pulled a copper 1943 from circulation and snaps right up to a magnet when one is waved over it.
One trip through a plater's facility will interest most folks: plated keepsakes of every kind littering the desk tops and show cases. Easy to be creative when the means are at hand. Back to the group.
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Probably not mercury as he says it is magnetic. My bet is that it is just slightly magnetic in which case it is most likely nickel plated. Pure nickel is strongly magnetic, but the small amount on a plated coin renders it only slightly magnetic. (just not enough nickel there.)
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I take that steel comment back? Confusion in communication with my dad, sorry. It is, however, magnetic...Going to try to locate a coin dealer in my area. That coin has been plated, PMD. |
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