that is the weight of the 75 cent not the 84 cent. His scale may be off and giving him a false reading.....
It's a US Mint Cent and it was minted in Denver. As for the color, it was plated, probably in a high school science class.
Why is it every time I post on here people just point out some of the most stupid obvious reasons that it may not be what it is. My Scale obviously works. I’ve even tried it on multiple different scales. It isn’t msg magnetic, and the small scratches do not reveal plating.
The only way that’s possible is if it was an underweight planchet and somehow plated with such a thick plating that I can’t scrape it off