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wxbake004 New Member United States 2 Posts	Posted 03/10/2020 07:02 am Hello, Sifting through a large lot of world coins netted lots of old British coins. While checking dates I encountered two half pennies that were magnetic. They would stick to the post 1992 pennies. Has anyone encountered this? Are they fakes? Would anyone fake a halfpenny? Report this Post to the Staff

John1 Moderator United States 56855 Posts	Posted 03/10/2020 08:55 am to CCF. Give it a bit and members will help. John1 Report this Post to the Staff
PaddyB Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 945 Posts	Posted 03/10/2020 09:22 am Certainly sounds unusual - I don't believe any half pennies, pre or post decimalisation, were made with a steel core. Can we see pictures? When you say magnetic - have they their own magnetism, or are they just attracted to magnets? Either is unusual, but it might help guide us. One thought, if they are magnets themselves is they may have been created for some magic trick? Report this Post to the Staff
jbuck Moderator United States 189502 Posts	Posted 03/10/2020 11:22 am to the Community! Coin Collector Since 1978 Avatar Old Avatar 7070 Eisenhower Australia Canada World CCF Members on eBay CCF eBay Search Engine Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16855 Posts	Posted 03/10/2020 8:04 pm A magic trick coin might be the answer here. We'd need to see pics of the coins in question. We'd be looking for signs that a coin had been hollowed out, had a magnet inserted, then sealed up with a ground-down face of a second coin. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
wxbake004 New Member United States 2 Posts	Posted 03/10/2020 10:34 pm The trick coin idea makes sense. They have their own magnetism and appear to have a seam down the rim. Report this Post to the Staff
PaddyB Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 945 Posts	Posted 03/11/2020 03:04 am Bingo! Report this Post to the Staff
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