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GixxerGixxer Posts: 30 ✭
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Could this be missing the out coating, it looks and feels aluminum but it weighs 2.5g but it's also a little larger thana normal small cent sorta oblong. Any ideas what I should do with it?

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  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 33,238 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Heavily corroded copper plated Zinc (not aluminum) coin

    Not an unplated error

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  • IkesTIkesT Posts: 3,199 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Spend it.

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,410 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Spender

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yep... Regular cent with some environmental damage.... Cheers, RickO

  • FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 5,837 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It’s been de-plated

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  • moursundmoursund Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @FredWeinberg said:
    It’s been de-plated

    Yeah, I was thinking somebody chemically removed the copper.

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