Silver 1920 P wheat cent (was told foreign silver planchet)

I have seen just one of these before and it was for sure a silver planchet error but would love your expert opinions. be blunt and honest I have thick skin. it's not Aluminum. it's not steel (tried a magnet)

 

Log in or Sign up to hide this ad.

dipped, or plated. Weigh it....3.1g?

 

Try weighing it. If it is 3.11g, most likely environmental damage.

 

not environmental, purposefully damage!

 

If it was a foreign silver planchet it wouldn't be the exact size of a US cent.
It would be larger or smaller or thinner or thicker.
And the letters would be mushed into the rim, or further away.

 

here is the silver cent in Grams. was told it is an Argentina 10 cent silver planchet

 

Who told you that? Did they make an offer?

 

yes coin shop here offered me $50.00 (same as what I paid) and he showed me a better version he had for sale same date and better condition with a small black dot in the center. He's the one that told me it was a Argentina ten cent planchet

 

yes he offered me $50.00 (what I paid a year before) then he told me it was an Argentina dime planchet. He showed me one he had in better shape with one small black dot in the center. he wanted $175.00 for his

 

That would be a huge mistake on his part.. A Cent struck on a silver planchet would be worth thousands.

 

Baloney. The assertions cannot be verified. Whatever it is, it is not an Argentina 10 centavo silver planchet.

1.a. The US Mint did make 3,443,334 planchets for Argentina in 1919 and 1920. They were 75% copper/25% nickel the same as the US 3-cent and 5-cent "nickel" coins. They were not silver.
1.b. The planchets weighed 3 grams exactly.
(Domestic and Foreign Coins Manufactured by Mints of the United States 1793-1970, Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Mint, Washington DC, 1972.)

2. The 10-centavo coins of Argentina 1896-1942 were copper-nickel.
Standard Catalog of World Coins, Krause and Mishler, Krause Publications, Iola, Wisconsin, 1982)

Is the dealer an ANA member?

 

just did research the 1920 Argentina ten cent was copper nickel metal not silver

 

sounds like i need to take it to a jeweler to do some kind of metal testing with acid or whatever they use. thank you

 

Looking at the pictures (always problematic), the coin shows too much uneven wear. It would not have circulated like that since 1920. It would have been collected and slabbed long, long ago. I believe that it is a forgery. Perhaps it was made from transfer dies.

 

thank you it is something to make me dig deeper for sure. Thanks for your answers

 

That will ruin the coin. Regardless of what it is, the "acid test" (so-called) is for gold and in any case, it harms the coin.

You said you did research. See my reply above. How did you research it?

 

I researched the 10 cent Argentina coin to see what they used in 1920 it is copper nickel alloy. NOT silver

 

this is the coin I saw at his shop it was slabbed mine is not the same weight s his though

 

this is the coin I saw at his coin shop I took a picture with his permission and filed it with my coin. His is heavier though and his is slabbed