Figure this one out would ya

So was coin roll hunting yet again and I stumble across this ery non copper nor did it have any tarnish u would find on a copper penny this penny has no copper color at all I haven't weighed it yet to see what it weighs I wanna know what yall think before I waste time on another wild goose chase lol all I did was a dish soap and hot water bath rubbing it with my thumb gently so it's not that clean but it has no copper content at all lmk what u think and if I should get it looked at maybe I found my dream coin a 1 in a million who knows I'll wait for answers thanks coin fam

 

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All cents since 1982 are zinc with a thin layer of copper. The copper was removed from this one. It is simple enough to do. You can lay the cent between leather and strike it a few times with a hammer and the copper falls away. Viola, you have a zinc cent.

 

Ok cool that's good to know thanks I'll toss it down the road then lol the hunt shall continue haha

 

Are you sure about this one, Randy? I could almost convince myself I see hints of luster on the obverse, which wouldn't be there if it had been struck through a copper layer...?

 

These days the only thing I am sure of is that I'll have to get out of bed three times tonight to go relieve myself..... Would there not be luster on the zinc core of a cent freed from it's copper layer?

 

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As I understand it, the flow lines that cause luster are a lot shallower than the copper layer, so they don't transfer through. I'm not the expert, though. (What am I doing in this subforum?)

 

"Punctuation". Now that's a euphemism we hadn't yet come up with for doggy leavings.

 

Just dotting my eyes. i

 

I could maybe see the coin in question if you had taken he photo through a Coke bottle.

 

My opinion is similar to that of @-jeffB It MIGHT be struck without plating but the pics have to much glare. I wouldn't get my hopes up but I don't want to immediately dismiss it as PMD.

But I have been wrong before

 

Now yall got me wanting to hammer on a cent between leather to see if the plating will come off.

And try also the other forms of deplating to see the results after it's done.


I know nicking the edge in a couple places to expose the zinc and putting it in vinegar for a while will dissolve the zinc and leave a copper shell. Not exactly sure how the deplating thing works, but from the video attached, the copper becomes copper sulfide and could be wiped off, the guy uses polish to clean and shine it. But I'd suppose if it was deplated and not polished, and just cleaned up gently,there's be traces of blackening on the surface from remnant copper sulfide from the process. I'd say if it has a whole bunch of little bumps on it, it's probably been chemically deplated and that's some zinc corrosion from the process.