Home U.S. Coin Forum

Copper Looking Coins!

ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,291 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited June 2, 2023 11:00PM in U.S. Coin Forum

Coins that look like they are copper but are not are interesting to look at and examine. Post any that you come across here!

Recently, @Dr_Bones posted a 3 cent nickel coin which not only looks coppery but was cataloged as such before metallurgical analysis showed it to be a standard 3CN coin. There's a good discussion on this thread here already:

https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1091541/can-you-explain-what-may-have-caused-the-color-of-this-coin#latest

I thought it might be interesting to start a thread on coins that look like they are copper after running across this one which I thought fit as well:

Comments

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Zoins.... Wow... that 1915 half dollar really appears copper, would love to see that one in hand. Cheers, RickO

  • JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice ones!

  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,467 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Dark olive with some gold luster, the actual appearance is tough to capture. Not so much traditional copper; but reminiscent of the look seen on some high grade Classic Head cents.
    Very unusual looking three center, so for <$100, I decided to put it in my type set:


    Successful BST transactions with 171 members. Ebeneezer, Tonedeaf, Shane6596, Piano1, Ikenefic, RG, PCGSPhoto, stman, Don'tTelltheWife, Boosibri, Ron1968, snowequities, VTchaser, jrt103, SurfinxHI, 78saen, bp777, FHC, RYK, JTHawaii, Opportunity, Kliao, bigtime36, skanderbeg, split37, thebigeng, acloco, Toninginthblood, OKCC, braddick, Coinflip, robcool, fastfreddie, tightbudget, DBSTrader2, nickelsciolist, relaxn, Eagle eye, soldi, silverman68, ElKevvo, sawyerjosh, Schmitz7, talkingwalnut2, konsole, sharkman987, sniocsu, comma, jesbroken, David1234, biosolar, Sullykerry, Moldnut, erwindoc, MichaelDixon, GotTheBug
  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,410 ✭✭✭✭✭

    i love the look of that 1915 commem.

Leave a Comment

BoldItalicStrikethroughOrdered listUnordered list
Emoji
Image
Align leftAlign centerAlign rightToggle HTML viewToggle full pageToggle lights
Drop image/file