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anyone ever see penny like this

T61T61 Posts: 24
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I found this penny in my collection and it looks bronze maybe anyone have a clue and what it is worth

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    DieClashDieClash Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭
    Post a picture. It's tough to tell without an image.

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    MajorDutyMajorDuty Posts: 1,998
    It's worth one cent.
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    commoncents05commoncents05 Posts: 10,102 ✭✭✭
    We made some like this in my chemistry class in high school. I forgot what we used, but we put it in this stuff that made it silver colored, then we set it on a hotplate and it turned bronze colored. It was cool.

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    DieClashDieClash Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭
    Looks like a 1989. It would be a copper-plated zinc cent. Worth about a cent + seeing as how it costs more than a cent to produce a cent these days. Looks like it could be in MS condition but the pice is very small.
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    tightbudgettightbudget Posts: 7,299 ✭✭✭
    Color has probably been altered through electrolysis...that's my guessimage
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    centmastercentmaster Posts: 504 ✭
    Spend it.
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    mozeppamozeppa Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭
    i think i've owned that exact cent at one time.

    no...really i did.

    send it back.
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    DrPeteDrPete Posts: 1,497 ✭✭✭
    Welcome T61,

    The coin has been altered by plating or other method. No special value. Although the US has never minted a "penny" we will allow the term under editorial license. Good luck in your collecting.
    Dr. Pete
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    TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 45,260 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ~a penny saved is a penny earned~

    I once sent a cent with a scent to the graders
    It cost me 2000 more to get it back in a bag
    The experts said it was not genuine, so I paid my tax bill with it !

    Practice makes perfect & nobody is perfect. So, practice being nobody.

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