Error coin?

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Gixxer
Gixxer 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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  • MsMorrisine
    MsMorrisine Posts: 40,041 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Heavily corroded copper plated Zinc (not aluminum) coin

    Not an unplated error

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  • IkesT
    IkesT Posts: 4,600 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Spend it.

  • johnny9434
    johnny9434 Posts: 34,051 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Spender

  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Yep... Regular cent with some environmental damage.... Cheers, RickO

  • FredWeinberg
    FredWeinberg Posts: 6,039 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    It’s been de-plated

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  • moursund
    moursund Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @FredWeinberg said:
    It’s been de-plated

    Yeah, I was thinking somebody chemically removed the copper.

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