1859 One Cent Is It Brass - Coin Community Forum

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Kman Pillar of the Community Canada 933 Posts	Posted 12/09/2011 6:40 pm Anyone know if this looks like its brass? and it is off by about 20% from obverse to reverse. and any value thanks Kris Edited by Kman 12/09/2011 10:22 pm Report this Post to the Staff

bibd Pillar of the Community Canada 838 Posts	Posted 12/09/2011 10:41 pm I am pretty sure it's not brass -- sorry. Report this Post to the Staff
Kman Pillar of the Community Canada 933 Posts	Posted 12/14/2011 6:10 pm Just received another 1859. Different tarnishing than this one as well the one in the picture is much higher pitched sound. Any sugestions what I should do to verify and where. I live in niagara falls Canada Report this Post to the Staff
Kman Pillar of the Community Canada 933 Posts	Posted 12/14/2011 6:41 pm its the middle one I think is brass Edited by Kman 12/14/2011 6:42 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Ugly Pillar of the Community Canada 1733 Posts	Posted 12/14/2011 6:48 pm If it were brass it be yellow like a lemon rind. Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10460 Posts	Posted 12/14/2011 9:00 pm I have zapped tons of "yellowish 1859s" under the XRF at work, including those colleagues of mine who were large cent collectors and their coins "had a shot at being brass". None of those were even close to being brass, ever! If you want a comparison, go find a French 1944 2 Francs coin (KM#905), well circulated from a world junk bin. It is a brass coin, and THAT is the colour you should be looking for... "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Edited by SPP-Ottawa 12/14/2011 9:01 pm Report this Post to the Staff
bosox Pillar of the Community United States 1353 Posts	Posted 12/14/2011 10:27 pm If you want to see a picture of a brass cent, go to http://www.victoriancent.com ,then click "Coin Info" and then "Victorian Cent Errors". At the bottom of that webpage, you will see a picture of one. http://www.victoriancent.com 2011 & 2025 Fred Bowman Literary Award Winner, 2020 J. Douglas Ferguson Award Winner, & 2022 Paul Fiocca Award Winner. Life Member of RCNA. Report this Post to the Staff
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