White Proof Cent????

This has to be plated right??? I would think Zinc missing the copper coating, but not in 1962.

http://cgi.ebay.com/WHITE-STRUCK-19...ryZ31373QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

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The only suggestion I have is to look at this posted by desertgem

 

The link is bad.
That penny is amazing BTW.

 

I have seen that done before. But..... The guy says he pulled it from the origional mint packaging as it is now. And the price is pretty steep for what I find hard to believe is natural

 

It would perhaps be a bit easier to swallow had the seller left it in the original packaging.

"I know, I'll take a copper coin, do something to make it white, and say that it was like this before I pulled it out of the packaging!"

 

High bidder fb number 238 would've loved to been with me at the flea market a few months ago. A guy had a stack of them for sale a dime a piece.

It's nice to know that if things get tough you can always plate pennies and sell them on ebay.

 

And I can say almost anything also.

 

I don't know about that coin seems to be a proof but I think the coin was tampered with I would stay away from oddballs like that . You just can't trust ebay. I think some body used a silver spray paint and then polished it with some good polish I zoomed in about 600x and the rims look copper something is FISHY
Jazzcoins Joe

 

The seller says he has never seen one like this 1962, but he also has a white 1957 proof cent for sale.... something is fishy.

 

You can find IT on eBay!

 

Is it me, or does it seem extraordinarily unlikely that you would find 2 of these unique errors at approximately the same time, taken directly from the set? It's very questionable. Hard economic times indeed. We plate or do chemical thins to our coins and then put them on eBay. Intriguing.

 

Yep... I did a search for "IT" on eBay and there it was... a DVD of Stephen King's novel circa 2002.

 

And look at this Franklin Half. Looks almost similar to some Plated Morgan Silver Dollars I have salted away with other cull silver I have. The luster looks plated, unless it's a bad camera angle and shot.

http://cgi.ebay.com/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110328013365

 

Maybe I am trying to see too much here, but the fields for both of those cents (as well as the 1957 half and quarter he is selling) just do not look like proofs. They appear to have some orange peal on them. This is right at the limit of what I can make out, but orange peal affects are definitely contradictive to being proofs.

 

Wow here's another one this time a Franklin halve from this seller looks like he developed some kind of method to achieve this look on his coins, There's no way you could come across serveral of these in any givein time even if they were authentic this guys a fraud

Jazzcoins joe

 

I looked at the guy's feedback, he's sold at least one other "unique white cent". Here's the link, 2 white cents:fishy. 3 white cents: extraordinarily improbable.

previously sold white cent: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110319905620

 

Seller also has two (2) blank back silver certs, LOL. Yeah right, blank backs, he just so happens to have two of those. I wonder how many of those bleached notes he's sold in the past.

Checked his feedback page, he's sold 3 of those blanks backs and another of those cents on the first page alone. He's a slimy fraud that hasn't gotten caught yet.

 

Paper money is far from my specialty but it seems like that would be a rare and valuable error if authentic, am I right?

 

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Stick a copper cent over a flame and you can get it to turn partially white. I assume with a little patience you could get the whole coin to turn white.