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My grandpa gave me the rest of the collection today and while looking through tubes of wheat pennies this popped up! it weighs less then a normal penny and doesn't stick to a magnet. Anybody can tell me what this is?
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Jhracing08 -
It maybe mercury coated or silver plated,
BJ NeffANA, CCC, CONECA, FUN, Fly-In-Club, NLG & "The Error-Variety Education Consortium" -
Out of curiosity, how much does it weight?
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How do you know it weights less if you don't have a scale?
If it is coated in mercury or plated in another metal it should be heavier; if it is indeed lighter (and you know how much) you might try and see what Mike Diamond at CONECA thinks about it. I would guess it is not aluminum, probably just something a kid altered in chemistry class and would explain why some of the metal has appeared to have worn off.Last edited by jcuve; 05-10-2009, 02:39 PM.
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Its just plated. I have a few of them myself. Not done at the mint. Someone did that to the coin. PMDComment
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Its not much different. Its still a normal wheat with a coating on it. you can see that its peeling of in some spots. There wouldnt be much of a weight difference even it it is coated. Unless you have a really nice scale that gets to the thousandth of the gram it wont be any different.Comment
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mercury - throw it away -
rogerRoger
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Yup...it's plated. Nothing more than that.Charles D. Daughtrey, NLG, Author, "Looking Through Lincoln Cents"
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