Shiney Steel Penny

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I brought this for my daughter for $5 for the set and I'm wondering about this steel penny which just seems to be so shiney. What would you guys think?

Ruben

 

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Here's another shot.

And the back side
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Ruben

 

Stainless Steel...

Take Care
Ben

 

Ruben:
It looks like a re-processed cent.
(at least assuming that the 1942S in your first posting was a mistake. Just kidding.)

Anyway, it was (and still is) popular to re-plate these steel cents for the public to appear nice and shiny.

 

At first my instict told me the coin was replated but the catch is that I see almost no wear on the coin and reat detail. Mind you, I have no expertise with Lincoln cents. I've always felt the coin is boring. But when I look at it, it looks to me to have almost no wear in the design, no flat spots, with crisp detail.

Ruben

 

Ruben it is either very real or someone has chrome plated it LOL

 

Mostly guessing, but I would think that it has been dipped in mercury.

btw; mrbrklyn, what does wear have to do with recoating?

 

ithink that when u re coat a coin it softens the detail becuase you are adding more metal over the strike?

 

That coin looks polished or plated -- not sure from the photos.

I'm sorry to say that I'd put the chances that this coin is unmolested at somewhere between slim and none.

Respectfully...Mike

 

It looks plated but it may be the focus of the photo.

 

There's a third chance category - fat!

 

Someone then plated an awefully nice coin. Pitty. Its actually the highest detail wheat back we've ever owned.

Ruben

 

Try weighing it. That should tell you if it has been plated or dipped in mercury.

 

I'm not cracking it out of its case to weight it.

What woudl dipping it in Hg do aside from making it deadly poisonous?

Ruben

 

It would not make it poisonous. Only the vapors are hazardous and its vapor pressure is so low that any ventilation would make it quite safe. You most likely have some of it in you mouth right now in your fillings. After it is mixed with the metal, it is quite safe.

When I was a kid, we used to dip copper pennies in mercury. They looked like brand new steel pennies. It amalgams with the metal just like it does in the fillings in your mouth.

 

Re-processed.

I keep several rolls of them on hand to make elongated cents out of. The local dealer usually has D,S and Philly mintmarks and sells them for 40 cents per coin.

 

Cracking it out?
Is it slabbed?
By who (whom?)?

 

What is re-processered?

Ruben

 

Its in some kind of cheap comemoritve slaab for WWII pennies.

 

I am not sure what all is involved but would assume they are re-plated. The process must hide some of the coins wear because mine all appear to be AU - BU when you look at them.