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Valued Member
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I found this gold looking penny. Any ideas?  *** better pictures below *** |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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What does it weight? We need a much better picture.  Edited by solotime
05/18/2013 4:13 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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Best guess would be that it was gold plated
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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@basebal21, from that picture it looks like a copper penny that was polished.
But it could be a proof. It does have a mint mark.
Edited by solotime
05/18/2013 4:19 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I agree with Basebal. Looks gold plated.
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Bedrock of the Community
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@basebal21, from that picture it looks like a copper penny that was polished. Its too gold to me for that unless that light is playing serious tricks on its color. I guess someone could have spray painted it but the plating isn't as rare as one would think. Theres quite a few sites who sell a lot of plated stuff, platinum and silver are popular too |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That's what I'm wondering too, is it the light or not. But I see what you're saying, it can be just a basic gold plated penny. I would really need a better picture to tell.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Is that a 1944-S? Maybe it is a rare off-metal gold 1944-S penny. Wait a minute, they didn't make any gold coins in 1944. Scratch that.
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Valued Member
 United States
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That's the real color. No light tricks. I forgot to say that it is a 1977. It's not spray painted. Sorry ill have a better picture when I get back home.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Better living through chemistry.
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Pillar of the Community
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New Member
United States
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It may have been dipped in gold and sold through a coin club.
It's definitely nothing special though, sorry :(
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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True @willamn. It's just we want and update about it from him.
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Valued Member
United States
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I've searched everything on the web, and the closest thing in color is gold coins. The chemistry experiments on pennies don't come close to the color and shine of my penny. I guess next is a scale.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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My guess is it will weigh very close to 3.1 grams
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Bedrock of the Community
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Take any penny from before 82 and polish with almost any auto polish and it will look like that. At some places where they are demonstrating an auto polish, they use Copper Cents since they are easily made to look like that. And no additional weight from plating. Edited by just carl
05/29/2013 11:05 am
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