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1990 D Lincoln Cent Silver
Bilyndas
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1990 D Lincoln Cent that is silver in color. It weighs 2.65 grams. The color is a bright shiny luster. Does not appear to be heated or chemically treated. It looks like it’s unplated. 
What are your thoughts?
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mercury?
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I checked to see if it’s magnetic and it is not. It weighs more than it should. It should weigh 2.50 grams but it weighs 2.65 grams.
It is plated so no extra value.
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Then why is it silver colored?
The copper coating must have bean warn off or eaten away by a chemical solution. What you see is what is left, The zinc of the penny
Plated with silver or nickel.
It weighs too much
Adding silver plating would increase the weight.
simply put Post mint damage no value what so ever added
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If it is plated it should weigh more than a standard cent.
Also, I see plating bubbles on the obverse. Either from the original copper plating or the subsequent unofficial plating.
It is plated.
Plated. Who knows why. Worth one cent.
Whatever metal it was plated with has that color.
Yeah, because it’s plated.
PMD.
take it out of the 2x2 and then take pictures
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@Bilyndas ....Welcome aboard... You have a cent that has been plated ...not a mint error... This happened after the coin left the mint. Cheers, RickO
Avreed with
A bit of mischief at the shop where things are plated with something shiny.
I have one too. (1990 d). I received it as change in the J.P.L. cafeteria back in the 90s. I just assumed that one of the Cal Tec students was having a little fun and I was out 10c. Threw it in the coin collection. It looks basically uncirculated.
Stick it on the train tracks...
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@codesinger.... Welcome aboard.... Interesting handle there....Cheers, RickO
I have the same 1990 D penny.. Does that mean anything?
@Grantlee.... Welcome aboard. No, cents have been plated with silver, mercury or gold by people for various reasons... jewelry, curiosity, scams.... No added numismatic value. Cheers, RickO
Obviously plated, hence the added weight. Possibly mercury, which is toxic to handle. Beware!
A plain 1990 D cent is zinc plated with copper.
That silver color is from someone plating over the copper. Another more dangerous possibility is the cent has a coating of mercury on it.
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