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Valued Member
United States
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Good afternoon I came across this 1986 LMC and have looked and looked to see if I can find any copper with no luck.. Working with metal everyday it really just looks like zinc.. Any thoughts ?   |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Yep, it's zinc. Looks like its been environmentally striped of it's copper layer. Yhe mottled blotchy appearance leads me to this conclusion. May have been buried at some point in it's life (in my opinion).  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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To start, I would weigh it.
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Moderator
 United States
56855 Posts |
Looks stripped to me also,PMD. John1  |
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
12477 Posts |
Interesting. To be honest, I don't know how to tell if a circulated coin was struck without plating or if it was removed afterward.  In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Agree, probably stripped.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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To start, I would weigh it. The copper plating adds virtually no weight to the coin. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
5825 Posts |
Just a curiosity idea.
Considering the bubbling on a lot of these coins, it seems to me that it would be easy to heat one up and have the copper cladding flake right off.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1359 Posts |
Zinc melts before copper.
Problem with this coin is I cant really tell if it was stripped or not from the pictures. The surface looks roight in the picture but I vould be wrong. Most likely stripped. Stripped or unplated would be underweight.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Usually if it were plated over the copper, these years would show roughness because of the zinc under the plating:  The fields should be smooth.  |
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Posted 01/25/2021 5:49 pm
