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hay, any one out there can help with more info please.this nickel seems to be struck on one cent planchet ,the size and the weight are as nickel and the color is as one cent planchet. what you tink. thanks for your help.sorry can not add pictures

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,799 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sounds like a normal nickel that is coated with copper dust or copper plated.

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  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,929 ✭✭✭✭✭
    How can it weigh more than a penny? If it does it's a plated nickel.

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  • so if this nickel is rare or not ,what you think of the value
  • Get a drill bit, the bigger the better. Then get a drill. Next put the drill it in the drill and tighten. Next you will drill a hole through the nickel and look inside. Do this and comeback and tell us what color the metal inside it. If silver it is common, if copper color better get it graded by Star Grading Service (SGS is the best).
  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,929 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>5 cents. Seriously



    Novelty,
    . >>

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  • yes the nickel looks lake one cent planchet
  • LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Well considering that a nickel has more copper in it than nickel that is just one of the many colors they can be.
    Edit to add I don't think this one was a gold planchet.
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  • GrumpyEdGrumpyEd Posts: 4,749 ✭✭✭
    Sounds like a normal nickel because you said the weight is normal for a nickel. If it was a cent planchet it would weigh the same as a cent.

    Does it look like it was buried? Buried nickels often take on a color like a cent or they can be a rusty red color.

    What's the date on it? If it's after 1983 then the cent planchet will weigh 2.5 grams, if before 1982 it will weigh 3.1 grams.
    Nickel planchets weigh a lot more, 5 grams.


    Ed
  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>5 cents. Seriously. >>

    Ditto!

    Seriously.

    Plated coins are fairly common but the plating actually detracts from any collectible value as when they get plated its considered post mint damage. It does not matter what they are plated with either.

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  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 35,683 ✭✭✭✭✭
    it's not unusual to find plated and painted coins.


    to test the systems, people who plate often toss coins in to check if everything is ready.


    I've also found a number of chrome or silver painted half dollars from the 1970s, and those were nickel-copper years.


    when hunting coins you will find many ways the coins were abused: plating, painting, holes, metal stamps (punches or chops), acid, carvings or graffiti, stickers, cuttings taken off, hollowed out magician's coins, cheat double sided coins like heads-heads made from two parts welded or glued together, and so on.


    all are novelty items


    they are considered damaged.


    in your case it's worth 5 cents.


    look up pictures of hobo nickels, there are some damaged, carved coins with value that is a lot of times above 5 cents.
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  • michiganboymichiganboy Posts: 1,247 ✭✭✭
    Plated, I got one too. If it was a coin struck on wrong planchet it would weigh what a penny weighs like others have said.
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  • ok here is some picture is the best I can do
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Pictures did not show up.... but rest assured, you just have a color tinted nickel...... Cheers, RickO
  • DorkGirlDorkGirl Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭


    << <i>ok here is some picture is the best I can do >>



    Try Photobucket.
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  • silverpopsilverpop Posts: 6,734 ✭✭✭✭✭
    sounds like you have either a common everyday nickel or a plated one, unlucky for you nither is rare

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  • << <i>so if this nickel is rare or not ,what you think of the value >>



    It's not rare.

    If the weight is the same as a nickel, it's impossible to have been struck on a penny planchet.

    It's plated, it's worth $.05, nothing more.
  • seanqseanq Posts: 8,732 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You could have an improperly annealed planchet, which used to be called a "copper wash" or "sintered planchet" error. This website has a comprehensive explanation, including documentation from the Mint. In layman's terms, nickels are an alloy of copper and nickel, and if annealed (a heating process meant to assist mixing of the alloy) improperly, the copper can migrate to the surface of the planchet. This results in a nickel of normal weight and size which looks like it was struck on a copper planchet.

    The value of such errors depends on how much copper color the coin has, so your pictures will be most helpful if you can get them to post. In general this is a low-value coin so while it could be worth a bit more than face value, don't book any vacations quite yet. image

    Edit to add: here is a particularly nice example from Heritage that sold (certified) for $115. I think a couple of the comedians on this thread might owe the OP an apology.


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  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 35,683 ✭✭✭✭✭
    oops
    that's embarrassing.

    forgot about them.


    you really need to post pictures of it.


    there is a testing forum and you can Private Message me for help if you wish.
    (go to the "profile" button on the upper right and turn your "Private Messages" from "off" to "on")
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  • seanqseanq Posts: 8,732 ✭✭✭✭✭
    TTT hoping the OP comes back and reads this one more time.


    Sean Reynolds
    Incomplete planchets wanted, especially Lincoln Cents & type coins.

    "Keep in mind that most of what passes as numismatic information is no more than tested opinion at best, and marketing blather at worst. However, I try to choose my words carefully, since I know that you guys are always watching." - Joe O'Connor
  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,929 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If it is, I will. image


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  • LochNESSLochNESS Posts: 4,829 ✭✭✭


    << <i>... Sometimes, even TPGgradium doesn't even add any value! >>


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