Question About 1995 Shiny Zinc-Colored Penny

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Earle42 Bedrock of the Community United States 10038 Posts	Posted 04/21/2011 2:32 pm I found a 1995 penny (wish it was DD) that appears to have been made from a planchet not properly plated with copper. You can see a few small spots of copper on the obverse. On the reverse the top part of the coin is zinc colored. How common is this kind of error? Is there a market for such thing or is it pretty much just a .50 novelty item? I would have posted a picture of the Rev also, but each time I tried, the system said the pic was too large. The smaller I made the image the larger the system said it was! I made it the EXACT (200X198) same size as the Obv pic, but it still rated it as too large. So I kept making it smaller and renaming it, But the error message kept increasing the size it said it was. What algorithm does the system use to compute size? My computations of 200X200 (pixel) / (8*1024) does not give anywhere near the same as the error messages gave me. Help! How much squash could a Sasquatch squash if a Sasquatch would squash squash? Download and read: Grading the graders Costly TPG ineptitude and No FG Kennedy halves https://ln5.sync.com/dl/7ca91bdd0/w...i3b-rbj9fir2 Report this Post to the Staff

coppercoins Pillar of the Community United States 7629 Posts	Posted 04/21/2011 2:56 pm The coin is a completely normal Lincoln Cent. Any discoloration you might see is due to damage from exposure to chemicals, etc. I can't help you with your image issue - I don't use the server at CCF for my images. Report this Post to the Staff
Indian1 Pillar of the Community United States 3640 Posts	Posted 04/21/2011 8:31 pm You have to take the pic. and crop it first with some sort of photo editing software. You can take a normal or even high res. pic. then save it to your comp. then crop it. Cropping reduces the file size but not the image quality. Then post it. Or send it to a photo hosting site and link up the pic. and post it. Report this Post to the Staff
Earle42 Bedrock of the Community United States 10038 Posts	Posted 04/24/2011 5:57 pm Coppercoins, thanks for your reply. However this penny came from a new bank roll back in 1995. Being a former chemistry teacher I can say this piece does not appear at all to have been in contact with a corrosive. To demonstrate Nitric Acid's properties with my students, I used to remove the plating from pennies to reveal the Zn underneath. I wish I could have posted a better pic - but the system was rejecting my properly sized, etc. pics. Maybe I will just go with a photo hosting site. A little more work, but maybe better pics. Indian1, I also appreciate your input. The procedure you outline is exactly what I did. I also have a bit of a photo/graphics program background. I then ended up resizing the initial cropped pic just to make it fit the specs. The tutorial said 500 pixels on a side maximum. It rejected the pic when it was this size. So I experimented with making it smaller and smaller. The featured pic I FINALLY got the system to take is only 200X200. I tried to post the exact same sized Rev pic and the system rejected it! i even went crazy then and made the pic even smaller to 100 X100 - just to see what would happen. The system rejected it while saying the picture was too large - in fact, the error calculation reported this tiny picture as being larger in size than the 200X200! Something to me says software error. How much squash could a Sasquatch squash if a Sasquatch would squash squash? Download and read: Grading the graders Costly TPG ineptitude and No FG Kennedy halves https://ln5.sync.com/dl/7ca91bdd0/w...i3b-rbj9fir2 Report this Post to the Staff
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