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New Member
Canada
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 Weighs 4.3 and its on a scale with only one digit. Lol. Very goldish
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Pillar of the Community
New Zealand
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sorry but the photo is to blurry to tell ---when taking a photo do it at 90 degrees to the coin --plus both sides would be better to tell what variety it would be
Cheers Don
Vickies cents and GB Farthings nut.
"Old" is a figure of speech and nothing more
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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with this variety and the fact that it is an 150+ year old copper coin there is ZERO chance anyone would be able to tell the difference between these with images. the coin needs to be XRF to determine the exact metal components.
you need to search out a local coin shop who may have one on hand.
good luck.
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
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Post a photo of the reverse side. The 3 that I have seen were early strikes, as gauged by the width of the vine break at leaf 7. Your coin looks exactly like the more than 10,000 other regular bronze cents that have crossed through my hands and doesn't appear to have any brassy yellow. Even bronze takes on a yellow tint if it's been cleaned by anything with an oxidizing agent and yours has been cleaned. There's no Vicky crud in the crevices.
Edited by okiecoiner
09/26/2016 8:07 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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Looks like copper to me.  |
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 Canada
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Looks like copper to me. Actually, I think you meant bronze... all Canadian 1-cent coins up to 1996 (except for a few rare errors) are bronze. "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Sorry yes bronze. I was being kind of lazy about it.....
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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What's in a name?
Smallcentguy collects copper cents.
Sherwood Park Pennies collects bronze pennies.
Yet they both are colecting the same series.
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Somehow I think SPP would prefer nickel cents... LOL
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Canada
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Yes - but building a date set of those is proving to be much harder!! I just got a box back from PCGS and have about 6 more to add to this set though... (including a 1964 cent struck on a silver 10c blank). http://www.PCGS.com/SetRegistry/sho...aspx?sc=1855Eventually, I want to split that PCGS showcase into two showcases. One strictly for 1c struck on Canadian 10c planchets and one for 1c struck on other off-metal planchets. "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Canada
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I'm right now thinking how cool that would look in a showcase SPP.... That's awesome!
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