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I inherited quite a few of these coins so I was looking online. Did they make a proof coin or a plated run for 1967? Everyone I have is silver colored with no sign of bronze. I haven't found any others that are silver besides mine.   Edited by Arkancharles
10/27/2023 02:28 am
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According to Freeman, "Pennies dated 1965, 1966 and 1967 have all been found struck in either brass or cupro-nickel"
It's possible that it could be the latter, making it an R17 rating, which is very rare.
However, it could also just be an ordinary 1967 penny that someone may have tinkered with.
If you know anyone that can do an XRF test on it to identify its composition, that might answer your query. No idea how much that kind of thing costs though.
I'm sure others may have a different opinion, so I'd wait and see what others suggest.
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10/26/2023 09:51 am
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Yes - may turn out to be someone playing around with plating coins. I remember doing the same! The usual circulation coin is bronze with quite a bright lustrous finish, and these are extremely common even more than 50 years later. Just to clarify, these are not "cents". Not only has the term never been used in the UK for the penny coin, but at the time, in 1967, we had not decimalised and so there were 240 pennies to the pound. In no sense a cent! |
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I suspect it's been plated. It should look like this:  |
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It's highly, highly unlikely that you'd have even one "wrong planchet" penny - so if you've got a whole bunch of them all the same, then it's essentially impossible. Most likely, they were plated - probably in bulk, and perhaps as part of a counterfeiting ring. Taking a penny and silver-plating it makes it look like a florin or maybe a halfcrown (a penny is in between a florin and halfcrown in size); plating a penny silver is this a cheap attempt at making a counterfeit. The fact that pennies and florins and halfcrowns all had almost the same obverse (with just the extra letters "F:D:" on the penny's obverse legend) made it more likely to succeed. All quite illegal to do, of course.
If you want confirmation, check the weight. A plated penny will weigh basically the same as a normal penny (9.45 grams). A wrong-planchet mint error ought to weigh significantly different.
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Surely plated. Weight would be intereting.
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A big thank you to everyone and their guidance. After sorting the rest of the box there was actually only 5 with that same silver tone. The pence, shillings and other coins appear to be genuine so far. I've got a lot more to go through. Everyone's been so helpful. Thanks again! (They all weigh right around 9.4 or 9.3g. I noticed as well 2 of them look like a dull white color. They both have these small spots that appear to be rust as well  ) Edited by Arkancharles
10/27/2023 02:42 am
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Hi there. If you have a friend with a metal detector, ask them to put it on your table, and wave the Penny slowly round at the business end of the machine. It will then tell you what the coin's made of. Hope this helps. Good luck!
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School project electro-plating coins was rife during the latter part of the 60's I guess it was chemistry teachers way of looking cool
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