"golden" Cent

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Bilbo Pillar of the Community United States 812 Posts	Posted 02/02/2008 4:54 pm I recently found a 2003 Lincoln Cent, bright and shiny, the same color as a new Sacagawea dollar. I'm sure it must be plated, but with what? My knowledge of chemistry is rather outdated, but I assume one can't plate cents with the same 'manganese brass' alloy used for dollars. I find it hard to imagine anyone would gold plate a cent. Any ideas? It appears to have "mint luster" so I wouldn't think paint could create that effect (but my knowledge of paint may be outdated, too). Report this Post to the Staff

KurtS Pillar of the Community United States 5318 Posts	Posted 02/02/2008 5:48 pm I found a gold-plated cent from the 50s in circulation. Gold plating is a very distinctive color to brass. Report this Post to the Staff
livingdinasaur Pillar of the Community United States 1571 Posts	Posted 02/02/2008 10:19 pm Is there any possibility that this could be a brass coated coin? there have been such cases begore. Dick Report this Post to the Staff
coppercoins Pillar of the Community United States 7629 Posts	Posted 02/02/2008 11:15 pm Zinc planchets end up dropping into the molten copper used to bathe the planchets. When they melt, they mix with the copper and produce brass, which is yellowish. Not all too uncommon, and most have given up on spending premium money on them. I personally have no use for them - I'm colorblind and cannot tell the difference. You could sit them next to each other and they look exactly alike to me. Report this Post to the Staff
foundinrolls Pillar of the Community United States 3507 Posts	Posted 02/02/2008 11:51 pm It also could be gold plated. Many coins are as novelties. You see a lot of gold , silver and supposedly platinum plated ,(destroyed) coins being sold on the TV coin shows. There is less than 20 cents worth of gold on the average gold plated cent. Report this Post to the Staff
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