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Gold & Silver Plated Pennies

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 Posted 08/13/2013  12:06 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add pocket change 50 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I was looking through Solds and I noticed a gold plated penny. I looked up the seller banknotes_coins, and they have several gold and silver pennies from different years for sale. To their credit they did mention it is not done by the mint, but a third party.
Yesterday on another sellers page I found silver plated robin and duck coins.
What is happening, is this the new trend, to plate existing coins? Any thoughts on this? These items are getting bids. Are people looking for a new twist on the coins?
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In the US, its not very new. Third parties have been gold plating coins (quarters, half dollars, & dollars) for years. Silver or nickel plating is done as well. They turn up in change or CRH on occasions.
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Back in the 80's I would do board level repair on some pretty expensive printed circuit boards. Part of the the job was applying new gold plating to contacts, edge connectors,.......
There were times my swab would still have some plating solution on it and we were not set up to save it. I would gold plate any pocket change that I was carrying and include it in tips or drop it in the Salvation Army fund rasing buckets you see around the holidays. Woo knows where it went then.
That's where some of it comes from, frugal recyclers, I couldn't just throw it out...
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