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1967 One Penny

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HI HAD THIS PENNY FOR A WHILE .ONE SIDE IS ALL SILVER IN COLOUR AND THIS SIDE HAS A BRONZE EDGE ANY IDEAS WHY?

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Silver paint, or some kind of plating. It wouldn't have come out of the mint looking like that.

Presumably someone silvered it either as a chemistry experiment or (more likely) to try to pass it off as a florin or halfcrown.

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Thanks. The bronze is on the silver colour thou , could someone have put acid or something on it ?
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