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Not sure what this is... do not have a scale to weigh it   |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Looks like the coin was plated. Just worth face value to a collector as the surface is now altered. But it is still a Wheat cent. |
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Bedrock of the Community
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 To CCF! It's been altered by being artificially plated. It's not an error. It's 100% Post Strike Damage ( PSD), meaning that this damage happened after it left the U.S. Mint. Errers and Varietys.
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Pillar of the Community
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Plated coin, not an error. to the CCF! |
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Bedrock of the Community
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 to the CCF! |
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New Member
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Why do people usually plate the coins? Is there a specific reason?
Thanks for all the help guys
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Bedrock of the Community
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Some plating shops do this as an example of they work they can do. I know I got a coin from one such shop. It is a cheap advertisement piece. They keep them in a bowl on the counter. Some try to make their coins look better by plating them. But a true collector can spot them from the shine. (it removes the cartwheel affect)
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Why do people usually plate the coins? Is there a specific reason? Sometimes they'll do it for school science experiments and other times, they will do it just for fun. We won't know for sure why people plate them, but it does happen sometimes. Errers and Varietys.
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Pillar of the Community
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We used to rub Mercury on them in the 50's and 60's in our school science labs.
Amazingly, we are still alive.
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Bedrock of the Community
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You probably have to eat mercury in order for it to be harmful. You probably washed your hands after class. (your still alive)
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It's a wonder we all survived the gobs of Merthiolate we received for cuts and scrapes!
The most common plating I see on copper coins is chrome, followed by white bronze and nickel. The chrome I understand, because of the cheap advertising for re-chroming companies. The white bronze emulates zinc-coated-steel for fake "steel" 1942 and 1944 cents. Nickel plating is just odd, but sure is common.
The quickest way to tell the plating is with a strong neodymium magnet. Nickel is magnetic. Chrome is not magnetic at room temperature, but is magnetic at higher temperatures (over 100 degrees Fahrenheit). White bronze is non-magnetic.
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10/20/2018 5:28 pm
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It's been altered by being artificially plated. Not artificially plated but that's real plating - LOL! |
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