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Hi dandudeamiga,
Welcome to the forum!
You probably have an ordinary cent that has been plated. My kids made coins like this in their chemistry class. Such a coin is only worth face value.
There is a small chance it is a coin struck on a wrong-metal planchet. There were some 1974 cents struck in aluminum as a trial; those cents were supposedly all returned to the mint and I've heard it would be illegal to own one. You should check the weight of your cent. An ordinary bronze 1974 cent should weigh about 3.1 grams, even if it has been plated. If your coin weighs significantly more or less than 3.1 grams, you might then consider sending it to a grading service for authentication as a mint error.
Please report back if you develop any more information.
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Welcome!
Jaobler told you everything about this coin that I could tell you.
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Very cool find from the bank! Chances are good that it is worth a penny, but pretty neat anyhow. If you keep your eyes peeled you can find some pretty good stuff in pocket change.
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Welcome to the forums!
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Unfortunately it is probably only worth a penny. Either plated or if you put a penny in the oven for a few minutes it turns to a silver color. Saloukas
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It can't be an aluminum cent, they were all Philadelphia coins and this is a Denver. The cent in an oven trick works on the copper plated zinc cents, not the pre 1982 cents. About the only two possibilities for silver colored 1974 D cent are after mint plating, or being struck on a dime planchet. Weight will tell those two apart. 3.1 grams it's plated, 2.27 grams it's on a dime planchet. (Due to mint tolerances those weights are not exact, a plated copper cent could weight as low as 2.97 grams. But you can see it won't get close to the weight of the dime planchet.)
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pre 82 cents can be turned silver color with out plating ,, although this was an accident (coin was left sitting on my wood stove) a fire was built and I found it when I came home from work ,, exactly how it got set there is still a topic of discussion ,,but at any rate ,, it turned a nice even silver color .  Metalman |
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Very cool metalman. How long did it sit in the fire? Can we see the reverse?
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What the heck there Metalman? I wonder what chemical process causes this to occur?
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