1984 Steel penny

Can you post pictures? Are you just making a statement or are you asking a question?

 

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Might be plated and in a bezel, no way to say without pictures.

 

Almost certainly a plated sent inside a bezel. Pictures would help, but I would recommend starting your own thread and not attaching it to one that is eight years old.

 

Maybe a broad strike where this “ring” is where the copper plating split to reveal the steel-colored zinc.

 

Yes I have a similar coin and is silver/steel looking 1984 p Lincoln cent but mine is almost Ms 65 to proof it weighs 2.50 can u tell me what I have?

 

El gato.. Start your own unique thread with pictures.. This is an old thread.

If you read this old thread you will get the same answers. There are no 1984 steel or silver Cents.

Create it over at the Error Coins forum.. Not the What's it worth forum!

 

I understand why people say to start a new thread (hijack, and visibility).
But do we really need all these extra threads where people are told their coins are only worth 1 cent? Also as a new member he may not have surfed around the site enough to know how to create a new thread, or where the forum is. He may have just searched for this specific date that he has a question about and this thread popped up.
As for the new question, it weighs 2.5 because zinc cents are supposed to weigh 2.5 grams. Sometimes the plating has been removed, (it won't really affect the weight much it's very thin). However, if your coin was not plated and left the mint, then you
have something.
Also proof is not a grade, it is a method of manufacture. Proof can be any number from 1-70.
Most likely you have a normal cent and the plating has been removed after it has left the mint. But you need to post photos.

 

Will mercury do the same to silver coins?

 

Mercury will "amalgamate" with the silver to give a semi-liquid VERY shiny surface which will eventually dull down. The "silver" pennies that crop up here often are usually the first stage in the Gold Penny experiment done in many high schools.

 

Thanks

 

If the mercury alloys with the silver I would expect the coins weight would increase. Is that correct?

 

Yes, but the increase would one, most likely be minimal, and two, not tell you much because you don't know what the coin weighed when the mercury was applied.

 

I have a friend that has one. what is it?

 

most likely a coin with a bezel intended for jewelry.

 

See post #23

 

I have 2 one from 1984 and the other from 1983. They both look like that color but they are larger the the size of a regular penny. They are also slanted looking, u can see it more on the 1984. On the pics I used a regular penny to compare.

 

Sorry to say they are just regular cents that have been damaged. Either by heat or placing the coin between two pieces of a softer material and pounding with a hammer.

 

I'd wager heat damage due to the nature of the coin's surface.