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Valued Member
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This penny color is way off. Tell me what you guys think   |
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Moderator
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based on those pictures, I am thinking painted/plated  The devices look to be in low relief. |
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Valued Member
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I knew it was gonna go something like that. Thanks anyhow:)
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Pillar of the Community
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Put it on a scale if you would like a little more info. A steel cent would weigh about 2.7 grams. The '44 brass cent would be around 3.1 grams. Time and crud will affect the weight, but it should be fairly definitive.
"Nummi rari mira sunt, si sumptus ferre potes." - Christophorus filius Scotiae
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Let me guess...you have a 1944 cent with environmental or intentional exposure to surface damaging chemicals causing the pink and mottled color.
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Pillar of the Community
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Did you check it with a magnet - just to be sure?
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Bedrock of the Community
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Somebody might of plated it for a experiment.
Errers and Varietys.
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Pillar of the Community
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With how my screen interprets color it appears to be an old cleaning that is toning
Edited by stoneman227
07/21/2017 09:40 am
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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A 1944 steel cent would also be strongly magnetic. (Coin will JUMP to the magnet) A nickel plated one will be weakly magnetic. (some attraction, you can pull it around on a smooth table top, you may or may not be able to carefully pick it up.)
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Rest in Peace
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Pillar of the Community
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Now that brings back memories !
When I was a little kid the dentist would let me have a drop of mercury. It would form a BB in my hand and you could push and chase it all over the hand till it was finally lost.
Now those were the good ol days ,give a kid poison to play with to keep them out of your hair !
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Pillar of the Community
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That's a good one, Stoneman! I wonder what he did with kids that put the mercury in their mouths and swallowed it?  Or took it home and gave it to their horse?  Anyway, how about that magnet?  Quote:
cent with environmental or intentional exposure to surface damaging chemicals causing the pink and mottled color. Hey, I got suckered into a few of those from '40 & '41. I think the guy who dipped them in the first place actually used one of those "browners" that you see advertised in old issues of the Numismatist and Coin World. They are amazingly awful. Edited by Biedercoins
07/21/2017 4:33 pm
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