1864 CuNi

i work at a scrapyard and I found this penny in a load of 90/10 CuNi a customer brought me. It seems like it was holed at some point?
All I know is that it has AG solder on it...
What the value on a coin such as this?

 

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Nice to find for free. Yes, looks like it was a locket at one time.

 

looks cleaned to death or gold plated ?

 

Haha not gold plated. It's a CuNi alloy. 90/10 and has silver solder on it

 

I'm guessing that it is worth somewhere in the neighborhood of 1c.

Chris

 

I would pay $5-$8

What form was the 90/10 in, coins or random scrap??

 

Marine scrap

 

The price was right.

also plated

 

The coin itself was not plated

 

Maybe the coin was cleaned To give it that shine. But the gun that tests metal says 90 copper 10 nickel. The silver was just traces of solder which was used to fill a hole? Not surw

 

Beautiful

 

The only 1864 that I own was found metal detecting. Apparently there was a forest fire and a chemical spill right where it was found. It was bent and partially melted and looked like it had been sitting in a cup of acid for a couple thousand years.

Very nice coin, I love the details on it. I think I see some doubling on Liberty's headdress too.

 

okay, if you want to believe so.