Off metal errors or counterfeit??
Lakesammman
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What do you think??
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Not off metal errors. The 57 looks plated.
They look plated to me.
The 57 definitely looks plated.
The 51 could be lead. Did you weigh it? Or are you just going by the color? I kind of doubt it, since I've seen just about everything faked in lead, but never a 1950s cent. By then, it wouldn't be cost effective for the cent.
57-D is plated. 51 may have been zinc plated a while ago giving it that appearance. If it weighs 3.11 gms (or a few hundredths higher) it was likely plated
I remember as a kid we could get Mercury and color cents with it. They would look bright silver like new dimes. I wonder all these years later what they would look like. Anyone think that could be a possibility?
Technically PMD, but still interesting. I have a 2x2 box full of cents and other similar post-mint alterations ... I keep some for fun and a few because they were "tuition."
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I remember "playing" with mercury as a youth, maybe that's the reason that...........
If you look real close around 5:30 on the 57-D, there's a rim ding with some copper showing through.
I don't expect you to see it from the photo's but it's there in hand.
Charm bracelets used to be very popular in the 1950's. I have seen bracelets with one coin for each child's birth year. Such coins were often nickel plated to keep them from tarnishing. That might be what the 1957 is from.
Yep... plated coins .... As a kid, I did the mercury thing as well....then, in my working life, I spent some years in a plating industry... many of the operators would plate coins... in gold, silver, lead....Cheers, RickO