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I have been saving wheat pennies forever,just now starting to go through them, what a chore, anyway while doing this I found a 1959 plain that I put in the bag because it was different. Today I looked at it, really looked. It appears to be clad in silver or nickle. It has a copper core and the outer clad is thicker on one side than the other, it is well struck,and appears to be real. Anyone ever seen the likes?  *** Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum. *** |
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Bedrock of the Community
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 to CCF! Pictures would help us determine what happened. It could be plated with something, or struck on the wrong planchet, or something else entirely. Pictures would be the only way to know... |
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New Member
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here is one more  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Most likely it was silver plated.
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the copper in this coin is thinner than a dime, an if it was plated would you be able to see the copper? For the print to be so clear on both sides I would think it would have had to struck. I will try to get a better shot of the print.
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For the print to be so clear on both sides I would think it would have had to struck. Plating, unlike cladding, adds only a negligible thickness of metal. You can plate a finished coin and the details on the plated coin are just as clear as on an unplated one. The TV shopping networks will sell you as many overpriced silver-plated, gold-plated and platinum-plated coins as you might need to test this. The "copper stripe" around the edge of your coin is either a part of your coin that was unplated. For a quick and simple electroplating, one spot on the coin's surface must be unplated; this is where the wire is attached. I suspect whoever plated your coin simply looped the wire around the entire edge. 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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to CCF. To me it looks like it was plated and set in a bezel at one time as jewelry. John1  |
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It pretty much has to be altered in some way since it is from several years before they ever did anything with clad composition.
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United States
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ok. plating is something I thought about, but if it is plated would not it be the same thickness on both sides, for one side to be 1/3 the thickness of the coin and the coin is no thicker than a regular coin,the copper is not as thick as a dime and for the print so crisp and clear that you can see the people on the steps.
I am not trying to talk anyone into believing it is an error, but having been around plating clad metals , this does not look like plating to me, it's just that the thicker side is so clearly " I'll say it looks stamped"
Everything everyone has said is possible, I believe the front could be plated, but the back being 1/3 the thickness leaves a big question mark for me.
Thank you all for your thoughts on this.
Daniel
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different camera, I think better shots.   the coin on edge shows the different thickness better. Thank you again for taking the time. |
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I am still agreeing with the majority here. I say plating.
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Its not thickness in a clad layer you are seeing. When something is electroplated its only a few microns thick. Something like a wire was wrapped around the edge to cause part of it to not be plated. Like Sap said possibly a wire during the plating process. It was just not completely centered thats why one side looks "thicker" than the other... I hope this helps you understand, I am having a heck of a time trying to explain this  Edited by LincolnGuy
12/12/2013 8:21 pm
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