I can't seem to find a coin that is the same as this, and when i do its copper not silver in color, did they have proof sets or something where they might of made it in silver? or could someone of maybe cooked it like they do with our pennys to make them look silver? this is the similar coin i found.
i dont know much about those coins but try searching the exact date, notice that there is 12 years in difference with those two coins.
i looked up years from 1925-45 and all i could find was the copper ones, the silver ones all had different letters after the name. i tried everything i could think of that might of been logical but knowing me i am missing something right in front of my face. the reason i posted that picture is because its the only one i was seeing with that paticuliar guy on the front and the same reverse.
It's plated with something. Normal colour is bright for Unc, or the usual copper/bronze toning. The 2nd coin (1952 1d) is a stock photo of the unique proof 1952 1d ...
Yea this is something commonly seen for British and commonwealth bronze coins. It's likely plated with nickel instead of silver.
It's a war time issue. Look in the Krause book & it will tell you dates & types I have a half cent just like it; the interesting thing is mine is holed just like yours.
No, the pennies were still made of the usual mixture during the war in England. Yours has been messed with. It should look like any other year's penny.
Lol. If you have a genuine steel British penny, Moneyer will pay you 50,000 British pounds for it. =)
no need to be sarcastic old chap, in the other thread i used it as a way of saying that the date was completely wrong, as for this coin it has been electroplated and is worthless.
Somebody must have made a business of it then. I found a 1942 half penny in a discount bin with a hole just like the OP's and it looks like steel. Plating would explain it but I would have sworn I found it in the Krause book as a wartime steel issue. Dementia setting in early I guess.
Plated specifically for use in jewelry. Few would wear a "copper" if it would turn brown and/or green. Jewelry industry promotes shine and sparkle not brownish green and dull.
You'll find that a lot nowadays. I swear, I find SOOO many coins messed with like this, but to date I have yet to ever see someone wear coin jewelry...
Hey no offense. I wasn't being sarcastic per say, just extending the point to this coin, i.e. a steel British penny wasn't made.
I just checked my copper scrap box because I had several similar plated Pennies and HalfPennies but they must have gone for melt, the coin in question is equivalent to me asking about this silvered Wheat Cent I found in the box which was obviously part of a bracelet at one time. Its super rare, I know, don`t all bid at once
further on this point, a friend of mine who is an eminent collector of uk pennies has recently found a 1967 penny struck on a brass flan............perhaps the most worthless of all our pennies but this particular coin is a genuine error and worth far more than most.
