WHAT!!! 2006 Steel cent

whats every one take on this..fake or Real

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150447994426

 

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garbage.

Do you want one?

coat it with mercury.

 

Zinc cent dipped in acid to get rid of copper coating

 

That's a fake. TC

 

Chinese special. Ask the seller if they include duck sauce with it.

 

I don't think that coin has anything to do with China... most likely it was just plated with something to give it a silvered appearance. I know a gentleman who works in a chrome plating shop and he plates coins like this all of the time for fun.

 

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1262456/make_a_gold_penny/

It is a middle high/high school chemistry experiment. It is in a couple of published lab manuals and thousand are probably made every year and then after the uniqueness wears off, spent into circulation.

But the return of $15 for a cent and a few minutes of time in a chem lab, makes it a wonderful experience for the ethically challenged. The seller would have done a google search and came up with the answer if he thought it was worth $150 ea. OR he really knows the answer. IMO

 

Its weight would probably tell you if its had the copper removed or has been plated with something else. A golden color Minnesota quarter turned up at my place of work once.

 

Didn't notice the magnetic info, so probably plated instead. My error.

 

Anyone notice those sharp images?? :rolling:

 

I wonder if that was mine hehe. Just stick a quarter on top of a light bulb for awhile and it turns gold. Pennies turn blue, purple, or greenish blue. I used to do it all the time.

 

It is a fake but why the high reserve. Baffling!

 

maybe he has no idea and just stuck that crap on ebay with a wish price.

 

well like i said before when i posted the hammer job coin,if the fakes are on ebay i sure seem to run into em a lot..150 dollar novelty is to steep for this ole boy..I sent the guy a link to coin talk so he could see what people are saying about it.

 

I'm not a big TPG fan, and when I do pick up a slabbed coin I generally break it out.

That said, I wouldn't dream of buying something like the subject of this thread without the entombed opinion of a major TPG that it is what it's claimed to be.

 

Thank God the reserve wasn't met. I'd feel sorry for the crazy bidder who would've won that.

 

Held a magnet up to my CRT on the pic, it didn't stick so I'm calling it a fake.

 

Fail-proof test!

 

If it really is magnetic, then it is not plated. It would have to be a unusually thick nickel plating to be picked up with a magnet. (yes, nickel is magnetic, look it up)

 

yep, i had a coin dealer trying to tell me nickel wasn't magnetic. till i came in with a magnet and a 2006 canadian quarter....

should have seen if he would of bet something, could have got a free coin..