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I have had this coin for over 50 years. How I have managed to hang on to it is beyond me. I remember coming across it in my pocket is change from the day. It is slick, It is slightly magnetic.   |
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Looks like a plated cent. Possibly mercury. Very common for school kids to plate coins with their "real" chemistry sets from back in the day
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11/07/2015 2:42 pm
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Are you absolutely sure that it is "slightly magnetic", because I think that would be nearly impossible if not totally impossible.
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PMD, plated coin.
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It's pretty common to run across coins like this from time to time. Seems like most of them are from the late 1950's - 1960's.
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Plated in steel? Could be nickel plated as well. |
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Could it be chrome plated? Is chrome magnetic? Is nickel magnetic? John1 Edited by John1
11/08/2015 05:14 am
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Nice.
Someone mentioned mercury above. Is it possible to plate something in mercury?
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Well nickel is the candidate, but I having lots of electronic training and real world experience never heard of Stainless steel being magnetic. Stainless is high in Nickel and a magnet ignores it.
A nickel plated brass bullet casing does have color a lot like this coin however it does not feel slick like this one. I am going to check the casing for magnetism properties but have my doubts. I also found in my collection a 1943 penny plated with something but it is not near as shiny or slick feeling. This feels and looks like mercury but being actually magnetic? I will post more pictures here later.
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I could be wrong, but I think Mercury evaporates fairly quickly. Spilled a bunch on my class ring (many years ago). I thought I had ruined it when the Mercury coated the whole thing. Sat it on top of the fridge for a few days. Went back to check and the ring was back to normal.
Of course this was back when Mercury wasn't so dangerous to play with! Dad and I used to clean his silver coins with it. Didn't realize until the ring incident that the Mercury was simply applying a light coat to the coins.
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