Gold Penny??

Hello All,

I found at work today a penny dated 2000 D. It looks like a normal penny in every sense except the color. It looks gold. It doesn't look discolored it actually looks gold. Can anyone give me an idea what it is or if it is fake or rare?

Thanks in advance for your time, Rhonda

 

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Welcome to the forum. Your coin is probably just toned, but it might be gold-plated. It would help if you could post a picture.

Charlie

 

More than likely its been plated outside of the mint...no extra value.
If you want to post photos we might can be of more help.

Speedy

 

Welcome to the forum Rhonda143. Sounds like you have a gold plated coin. Hard to say why the coin was plated, but most commonly this is done to be used as jewelry. As far as coin collectors are concerned, the coin has been "damaged" because it has been altered after it left the mint. And unfortunately, the amount of gold used in most modern plating is so small that it won't raise the value of your coin past one cent.

At any rate, its a fun find, and makes for an interesting conversation piece.

Feel free to post a picture or scan of your coin as it will help us confirm my guess.

 

Rhonda,
Look at this thread from a few days ago on the same subject.
http://www.cointalk.org/forums/showthread.php?t=12758

 

Could be someone is just having fun dipping in something. I noticed that putting pennies in certain dish soaps made them blueish. So just to have fun I put a big pile of pennies in this soap, turned them blue and put them back into cerculation. Possibly someone is smugling gold by making pure gold pennies.
In reality it is just possibly some contamination that occurs frequently and was never noticed until lately due to the much more popular coin collecting boom. Don't forget that the gold color of gold is not really as gold as people think. Usually true gold is very pale and brass, bronze, copper, is added to make it look gold. Just as silver or nickel is added to gold to make it white gold. I never could understand that one. Why get something made in gold and add something to it to make it not look like gold?

 

Rhonda, hi.. I have a peeny like that..it's posted here.. I have been told it's called a yellow jacket..

 

:goofer: oops... penny lol

 

I was walking down the road in Hopkinville Kentucky and I found a gold penny it don't have a p or d could it be fake

 

Any gold "pennies" you find have been altered in some form or fashion. Period.

 

Eleven year old thread. Necromongers!

 

I know. After a while, I get sick of seeing and hearing about gold "pennies."

 

If it's just yellow, that's zinc poisoning of the plating bath. Happens before the planchets get to the mint and is not considered special in any way.

 

One... more... time...

 

Did you even bother to read the posts before yours? If it does not have a Mint Mark it was minted in Philadelphia.
And it is most likely altered. Plated.

 

I would suggest you post that every time one of this threads pops up. A public service to CT it would be!

 

Finally an answer that carries weight. I found a 1974 D Lincoln cent. And I thought many things but mostly that the discoloration was done after the mint.
I was certain it wasn't an aluminum version.. since I was the proud owner of an aluminum version at age 12. But that's another story. But for all you dreamers of getting one... well mine was given to me by a grade school friend whose grandfather gave him 10.
His mother verified the grandfather's position in government and how the penny's value would only sky rocket.

Well I had a paranoid father who convinced me to throw it away before he or even possibly I would spend countless years behind prison bars.

Any how,who could have known. I'll send you a picture of my gold penny following this note.

 

Oh really? I want to hear this story.. Create another thread with pictures if you can.

 

he said he threw it away ...

 

Please don’t bother.