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I need some help, stumbled across an odd coin today... It is 1973 One Cent piece, but it appears to be silver, if I'm not mistaken it is not dipped or plated, I scratched at the side of it with a blade, and it seems to be silver (or steel?) straight through. There doesn't seem to be anything like this online from what I've looked through, and there definitely isn't a common picture of it on google. I've read that stamping pennies with the freemasons mark is common, but this appears to be less common. Some insight?  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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  to CCF! I think I heard about a 1974 aluminum cent being found not to long ago; produced and passed to congressmen for review but ended up in a private collection. Can you weigh this coin? 3.1 grams or slightly higher if plated would be my guess. Also, is that a hint of copper bleeding through at the counterstamp? Also - can you get a shot of the reverse and try cropping your pictures to remove the background. Edited by Rackster
01/27/2015 11:22 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I see it just being double post mint damaged. Counter stamped and then high school experiment.
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New Member
 United States
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After taking a look at this picture I took a better look at the tail side of the coin, and there is obviously a mark where you can tell the symbol was stamped in to the coin. But still, would like any info on the original coin that I could get. :]  |
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United States
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I have a scale to weigh it on, just wont have access to it until tomorrow.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It's plated.
The aluminum cents were dated 1974.
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Valued Member
United States
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A co-worker gave me a cent the other day that had been chrome plated, it's not hard to do, I've heard of kids doing it in their auto body classes as a way of practicing chrome plating. As far as the Mason stamp goes, I've seen that stamp on just about every current circulating coin type.
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to CCF fellow Michigander. It is a plated coin,maybe mercury? Weighting it won't help much if any unless your scale goes to .0001. The added plating weight won't show up on most scales. It is a counter stamped coin. Small if any premium,IMHO. Enjoy our great site. John1  |
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Weighting it won't help much if any unless your scale goes to .0001. Wouldn't help even then because you have no idea what the coin weighed before it was plated. Due to tolerance ranges it could have weighed anywhere from 2.99 grams to 3.21 grams. |
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It is a plated coin,maybe mercury? That was my first thought. I've heard it soaks in deep. I'd avoid handling it too much. As far as the stamp goes, yes, they are pretty common. Sometimes you see them with a flat stamp and sometimes it's a really raised dome shaped stamp. |
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By 1973 they weren't playing with mercury in school any more.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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By 1973 they weren't playing with mercury in school any more. I seem to remember messing with it later than that. Could be side effects though. LOL |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I remember a classmate bringing in a big ball of mercury one morning. By the end of the day, it was a little ball of mercury.
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My junior high school still uses mercury thermometers in all three science labs in 2012 (the last year I was there). I don't know if they still do now, but I wouldn't be surprised if they do.
I remember in 2009 (in a different primary school) my science teachers had some mercury in two petri dishes taped together, then passed around the room for us to see.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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But the scale would discriminate between aluminum and copper.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Agree...counter stamped and plated
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Posted 01/27/2015 11:33 pm
