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AT214 Valued Member United States 228 Posts	Posted 03/12/2015 5:03 pm is this a silver 1992 D penny I hear about? it is silver in color and does not stick to a magnet. it is dirty but I don't want to clean the dirt off. * Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum. * Report this Post to the Staff

SilverStackerKid Pillar of the Community United States 6478 Posts	Posted 03/12/2015 5:20 pm We need closer pics of the surface. Report this Post to the Staff
AT214 Valued Member United States 228 Posts	Posted 03/12/2015 5:31 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16859 Posts	Posted 03/12/2015 5:45 pm American cents are made of copper-plated zinc. This is a cent that, by one means or another, has lost it's copper plating and is now just pure zinc. The "dirt" is zinc corrosion. 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 Report this Post to the Staff
AT214 Valued Member United States 228 Posts	Posted 03/12/2015 6:07 pm That is what I was thinking too, we found a steel Wheat penny and thought we would get lucky twice lol Report this Post to the Staff
T-BOP Rest in Peace United States 18456 Posts	Posted 03/12/2015 6:19 pm This could have been a lone wolf in the bin , who forgot to get it's copper bath. Report this Post to the Staff
Buddy Rest in Peace United States 7075 Posts	Posted 03/12/2015 6:35 pm Is it silver all over? Or just the high spots? The pics look like there are patches of silver. Report this Post to the Staff
coop Bedrock of the Community United States 62064 Posts	Posted 03/13/2015 02:13 am That is one of the science experiments that some one added zinc to cover the copper plating. If this were an un-plated planchet, the surface would be smooth, not rough looking like this example. Report this Post to the Staff
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