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baracus2k New Member Canada 2 Posts	Posted 08/27/2006 8:16 pm i have this 1913 large cent I picked up at a flea market a long time ago when I was a kid... it looks to be lightly silver plated... I cant remember what I used but I tried to see if the entire thing is silver and as you can see from the pictures it only seems to have a thin layer on top...... on the king it looks red from the copper.... thats where it got a bit scratched and the silver came off... I also used a bit of vim to see if it was painted or something (vim can take off all types of stains) and none of the silvery colour came off... so I figured this must be silver on top of copper... now I'm wondering if this is a unique coin plated at the mint or just someone fooling around trying to make a fake? Image: DSC00573.jpg 99.28 KB Image: DSC00574.jpg 81.8 KB Edited by baracus2k 08/27/2006 8:20 pm Report this Post to the Staff

sn31 Pillar of the Community United States 773 Posts	Posted 08/27/2006 8:45 pm With a mintage of 5,735,405,I can't find anything that shows a silver plated 1913 large cent.The one I have is copper.Still,it's unique all in it's own.If you're going to collect a set of these,you might want to replace it with a copper 1913.Be careful what you use to try and clean something off your coins,because you can do some serious damage to the value of your coins. :) Welcome to the forums :) :) sn31. Edited by sn31 08/27/2006 8:55 pm Report this Post to the Staff
baracus2k New Member Canada 2 Posts	Posted 08/27/2006 9:58 pm thx for the welcome..... I never clean my coins since I know that can damage them.... I just scraped this one a bit to see if its copper beneath and it seems to be... I'm not trying to collect the set... I'm simply trying to figure out if this is a unique error from the mint (making it potentially valuable)... Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16835 Posts	Posted 08/28/2006 04:44 am Nope, that's a post-mint silvering job. With the large cent about the size of a quarter, I'd guess it was somebody trying to make a quick 24¢. Quite illegally, of course. It may not be "real silver" it's plated with, either; it could be some kind of mercury-based wash. 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
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