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ID This Coin Please | Gold-Plated British Penny

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 Posted 03/10/2013  08:56 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add mikelahie to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I need help identifying a 1915 British one penny
The coin is GOLD in color but I'm not sure
If it is gold plate I can not find this coin anywhere...I found one just like it but big difference in the date if you were to Google 1967 24k gold plate British one penny one will come up it has the guy in the wheel chair thing and Georgia on the back I'm not any good with knowledge on coins at all so if you could please help...thank you and it won't let me upload my pic

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 Posted 03/10/2013  6:20 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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...it has the guy in the wheel chair thing...

It's a lady, and it's not a wheelchair. Though the confusion is understandable, since she's wearing Roman armour.

As for your coin, it wouldn't have come out of the mint gold-plated. It has probably been gold-plated privately.
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.it has the guy in the wheel chair thing...


The confusion would understandable if you are from Mongolia or Kyrgyzstan
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i love that phrase .... here are two from my collection one gold plated like your coin(i think)...



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 Posted 04/06/2013  05:56 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add mikelahie to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Anyone interested in my coin make offer I don't have pics but
Its MINT and ms-64. Very nice coin
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Anyone interested in my coin make offer I don't have pics but Its MINT and ms-64. Very nice coin


I'm afraid I doubt anyone will want to make an offer without a photo mikelahlie.

And if it's a regular 1915 penny that has been gold plated then it's value will be as a souvenir or curiosity, so to a collector of British coins we're talking .. well, cents really.

And if it's 'gold' because it's been polished ... worthless.
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There are a few chemical methods that you can use to brass-coat copper coins. They look very impressive at open houses for schools, so I've had first-hand experience here. (*Don't do this at home before looking up this method in at least two other places, and make sure you know what all the ingredients are!)

1. Dissolve zinc sponge in boiling sodium hydroxide. This is something you won't want to do on your stovetop.
2. Put your copper coins in the mixture after removing it from the heat. The shinier they are, the shinier the brass will be.
3. The zinc will react with the copper and coat the copper coin with a silvery layer of zinc. If you just want a silver penny, stop here.
4. Put a zinc-coated penny in a Bunsen burner flame. Zinc has a low melting point (it can melt on your stovetop), so it will liquefy on the coin without dripping off. Certain liquid metals can dissolve certain other metals, so the copper from beneath the zinc will mix together and the coin will turn yellow in about ten seconds.
5. Drop it in a glass of water to cool and you're done!

Most "gold/silver" finds (especially circulation) for copper coins are going to have been messed with chemically this way, and they're not worth anything more than novelty value.
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