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Here's a couple more I have just ran into. 1st is a 1919 Wheat penny. It has a bullet hole that has totally twisted the penny and is straight through Lincoln's chest. I know they done this in WWI but usually it was a hole in the middle. Wondering if it's worth anything. 2nd I have found a 1966 silver penny that is magnetic. I know school kids used to plate them but would they endup being magnetic? And a value Cheers guys      PS. Bottle cap is a magnet lol |
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Pillar of the Community
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Is the 1966 in a bezel that is magnetic?
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No the whole coin is magnetic
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in your latest picture, the area near the "C" in Cents, that looks like something was pressed around the coin like a bezel. See how its sticking above the surface.
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Yer I saw that and up close it looks like it can be peeled off and It looks like a normal sized penny under it. I dnot know what to do
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The 1919 is just a damaged cent. (Couldn;t have been done is WWI, the cent is word and dated 1919, WWI ended in 1918.)
The 1966 is in a bezel that is magnetic and it has probably been plated with nickel which is also magnetic.
Edited by Conder101
11/19/2015 10:26 am
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is there a way to test that for sure?
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weigh the penny, it should be about 3.1g, most likely it will be more like 3.5 or higher. Meaning there is extra material on it.
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is there a way to test that for sure? Get a smaller magnet that can be used to spot test different areas of the coin. The bottle cap magnet can't test the center of the coin without also contacting the bezel around the edge. I believe if you had a small magnet, say the size of a pencil eraser, you would find it strongly attracted the the bezel around the edge, but very weakly attracted to the center faces of the coin (the nickel plating). |
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The first photo of the coin sure looks like it has a bezel around it. Like a ring pressed onto it so it could be used as jewelry. I have seen coins like this on necklaces and bracelet. The coins will usually be plated also.
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yes it can because the magnet is smaller than the penny
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Ok so I took that ring off and the actual coin is not magnetic. It weighs 3.11 grams. What next? What is it
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Bedrock of the Community
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You're back to just a cent that was plated after it left the mint. Damaged, no premium value.
Edited by Conder101
11/23/2015 09:35 am
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with the silver penny like many others on that find these
usually these are coated with mercury by just rubbing your finger
on the penny with mercury. mercury was no big deal like in the 70's
when I was in school, everyone played with the stuff... now today its
number 1 poison. I bet today if the stuff was in the container I saw in school
a Haz Mat team in full gear would be sent out to trans port the stuff away.
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The 66 was probably used as a form of decoration on something. Believe it or not some people will slab some metal around a penny and glue it to something then try to sell it... and believe it or not some people buy these items when they could easily make them themselves. I know of a store that puts a penny on everything even jewelry. Sometimes they plate the pennies. All just to try to make a buck out of a simple penny. I noticed a lot of older people tend to be drawn to these items for some reason.
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