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The next time my camera guy is available I will take pics of all three 43's and start a new thread, two are pretty obvious as you can see the zinc/ steel in places but one is a pretty good coating job, looks real good.
Kie
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I have one too... they are silver (or silver metal) plated. I found one at a flea market. scrape the edge off a little and ya will see. No aluminum cents were made that year '98... we all know that. Its an interesting story... which is why I bought mine.
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There were no aluminum pennies minted in 1998 so it is pointless to even weight it or take pictures; someone just stripped the copper off it to reveal the zinc core.
Perhaps a coke machine will take it ?
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haha. alright, fenton, i'll try the coke machine test.
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Note I will buy you a steak dinner if it is in fact a 1998 penny that was inadvertently struck on an aluminum planchet
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I'm not sure why you think I'm deadset on it being aluminum. I only thought it was a remote possibility. nonetheless, it doesn't look like the experiments, etc. that I've seen pics of where they remove the copper. that's why I need better pics, I guess.
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oblakavshtanax, in the radio DX'ing hobby (my other favorite hobby) the words "Nibi-Nibi" arouse the very same reactions as do the words "aluminum penny" among coin collectors. Seems that a rather well-known DX'er claimed to have received radio signals from the island of Nibi-Nibi, which of course doesn't even exist. That's why you're getting the same reaction to your post entitled "aluminum penny". You'd get the same thing if you posted "Anastasia found" on a Russian history site.
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sheesh you guys are critical. this isn't a prank, and as I already said I'm not quite sre it's an aluminum penny, Sorry, it's just that over a years time we get dozens of people that come on here and claim to have an aluminum cent. And in the many years that the forum has been around not one of them has turned out to be real. So naturally we very highly skeptical of any such claims. Quote:
I figure that the pic that I put up, regardless of it's quality, will give you a good idea of the color of the coin. The problem is it is very difficult for us to know whether the color we are seeing is an accurate representation. We have different monitors, different equipment, different software....what we see on our screens may be different from what you are seeing on yours. For that reason color is not reliable. Look at the post of the copper 1974 that was made earlier in B&W. I looks a LOT like what an aluminum cent would look like. That is why weight is a much more important question. Quote:
I'm not sure why you think I'm deadset on it being aluminum. Because you mentioned aluminum and they jumped on it. Since you say it is a 1996 a non-plated or unplated zinc blank would be a possibility, as would a dime planchet. |
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I think the OP's main issue stems from just not having any pictures ready before starting the thread, and taking a while to get any definitive answers to the questions of people honestly trying to help him out. That's and getting all the details was like pulling teeth.
It's like if you went on a tech support site and said: "I've got this computer in another state right now. It's off, but I can turn it on and give you guys the error message."
No...instead, get your details together first, then post all the info you can. It saves everyone the time of asking the same questions over and over. No offense meant, obla.
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radio DX'ing hobby (my other favorite hobby)  I thought I was the only one that did that! |
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yeah I know, I just thought you might be able to give some clues without having the pic. I say just let it die for a bit until I can figure out how to get a really good one. it'll take me a week or so.
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Okay, Scooby and I will hijack this thread and keep it alive until you can post a photo. (I'd suggest slapping the silly coin on a scanner - that's what I do, most of the time.) Anyway ... Quote:
pls: radio DX'ing hobby (my other favorite hobby) Quote:
Scooby Due: I thought I was the only one that did that! I'm amazed that anyone here even knows the term. I have DX'ed the AM band since about 1955, although I'm pretty much inactive now, having handed over the reins of publishing the National Radio Club's "DX News" for 22+ years to another fellow, and I'm ... er ... resting and concentrating on YA novel writing and coins until the garden season rolls around again (pepper seeds go into trays for sprouting in about 3 weeks). Also have DX'ed tropo and e-skip on TV and a bit of FM, but little longwave or shortwave. What bands do you DX, Scoob? |
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