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New Member
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I think I may have one of these pennies on my hands...I got it in change today in the middle of NYC.   Edited by tepo3z
03/07/2013 8:42 pm
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Forum Dad
 United States
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New Member
 United States
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I need to get a scale. Anyone have any insight based on the pics?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I need to get a scale Got a popsicle stick and a pencil? Make a balance. This would weigh significantly less than any other cent. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Thats not aluminum, its just dirty and corroded
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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 Looks like a Metal detector find.Environmental damage |
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New Member
United States
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I weighed it and it was 3.2g....Not .93g :( So what could it be?
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Big Tree Company in China sold 1974 aluminum cents on ebay. Here is a pic from from their website back then:  I hope yours is real. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10034 Posts |
More pics of the fake:   How much squash could a Sasquatch squash if a Sasquatch would squash squash? Download and read: Grading the graders Costly TPG ineptitude and No FG Kennedy halveshttps://ln5.sync.com/dl/7ca91bdd0/w...i3b-rbj9fir2 |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Not Al. |
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United States
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Questions: Do I have Bronze-Clad Steel? I've read that it's also illegal to won and that many were destroyed....Are they worth anything as well?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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a. If its real this would be one of the biggest finds in the lincoln series ever.
b. the 1974 aluminum were supposed to have all been destroyed and are considered government property and subject to seizure and possibley destruction.(as far as I know they have not and dont currently plan on melting down the 1933 st gaudens double eagles, so its hard to say if they would destroy this one.) so dont send it to the secret service for authentification if their is evidence strong enough to think it might be real.
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Do I have Bronze-Clad Steel? No. Bronze-clad steel would look like an ordinary bronze coin (except for the edge), but it would stick to a magnet. Your coin looks greyish, and I doubt it sticks to a magnet. I suspect it's a perfectly ordinary bronze 1974 1 cent coin that's been zinc-plated post-mint. I own an Australian bronze 2 cent coin that my dad zinc-plated as part of a chemistry demonstration. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Sorry, post mint damage, not Al.
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Forum Dad
United States
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the 1974 aluminum were supposed to have all been destroyed and are considered government property and subject to seizure and possibley destruction.(as far as I know they have not and dont currently plan on melting down the 1933 st gaudens double eagles, so its hard to say if they would destroy this one.) so dont send it to the secret service for authentification if their is evidence strong enough to think it might be real.  http://www.coincommunity.com/us_sma...ial_cent.asp |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Here's a picture of the one they have displayed at the Smithsonian Museum in D.C.:  |
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Posted 03/07/2013 8:40 pm
