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1959 penny. Possibly steel. 3.5grams
Jf123
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Anyone know anything about a penny like this. It's in great condition
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Shhh, I've been hoarding them since the Sixties.
fka renman95, Sep 2005, 7,000 posts
The only thing I know is that it's in great condition.
Probably plated. Any photos?
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Is it attracted to a magnet?
I know the chrome shops used copper cents to test the vats before dipping the other car parts.
High probability that's what you have.
So you have a scale but not a camera?
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I'll post a few pics in a lil while. It is in great condition. Didn't CK magnet yet. Will also do that. I forgot to grab the coin before I left for work. I'll be home soon.
Steel cent would be 2.7 grams.
Plated jewelry piece is a likelihood
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Hopefully the coating isn't mercury.
Maybe that’s what happened to slick.
Welcome to the forum. Read the signs. Among these replies lies the answer already. Posting a photo now is moot. Time is best spent reading the other threads too. Start with the ones with default icons and you will see that it is good to stop chasing information about this coin. Stick around and learn even though you don’t have a gem to show, no one gives a turd about my coins either.
I bet it looks like one of these...
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It can't be steel; the weight is wrong. A steel planchet would weigh 2.7g. A normal copper cent weighs 3.1g so the overwhelming probability is that your piece has been plated with something, which would easily account for it being slightly overweight. Pictures, when you get around to providing them, will undoubtedly confirm this.
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Plated. Wrong weight, and wrong color for 64 year old steel.
Not magnetic
Based on the picture the only thing someone can say for sure is that it is NOT in great condition.
I assume it's been plated. The picture doesn't prove or disprove that, though.
Extra thick plating. Worth 1 cent.
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So y is it silver not copper?
Most likely chrome plated copper.
Hello. In the 1950's and into the 1960's there was a company that marketed inexpensive charm bracelets to Mothers with coins of the birth years of their children on them. These were the Baby Boom years when large families were common, as was mine. The default coins were Lincoln cents, though perhaps for a higher price larger coins could be had.
To keep the bronze cents from tarnishing, as they were wont to do, the company plated them with some light grey substance that held its color well. Your coin matches the color of the intact bracelets that I have seen. It is highly likely that your coin was removed from such a bracelet and spent.
No extra value, unfortunately.
Hope this helps.
Ok thank you
Actually the chrome plating process before chrome is a nickel plating.
Nickel plating would explain why it doesn't stick to a magnet.
Why would that be? Nickel is highly magnetic. If it was Nickel plated a magnet may stick to it weakly depending on the thickness of the plating.
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