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<p>[QUOTE="Tom987, post: 4626252, member: 113706"]Over the past few months I have started looking for penny errors and interesting things like that. Recently I went to a market and came across a booth with lots of steel pennies. They where mostly all corroded and in real bad shape. Then I saw this one mixed in with them. I got it because it looked interesting and I thought it was in real great shape. Later when I got time to look at it more closely I saw the date of 1951 S. I did some research since I thought it was a steel penny with the wrong date on it. I came across several posts saying that most pennies that are like this are plated with mercury or nickle. I was a bit curious on this one so I did some extra testing. I first tested the weight which was 3.4 grams. This is way heavier than the steel penny which from my research seems to run at 2.7 grams. I also read that the plating that is normally found on the pennies do not add weight like that to a penny. I then tested to see if the penny was magnetic which all of the plated pennies I could find info about are not. I first started with a weak magnet which was highly attracted to the penny. After this i used a normal magnet which also stuck and was attracted to the penny. This was the biggest factor that was different from what I have seen elsewhere. It did not have the magnetic strength of a steel penny so I decided it was probably not a steel penny. I wanted to compare the magnetic properties of a similar coin so I tested it against a 100% nickle Canadian which showed the same level of magnetic properties as this penny. </p><p><br /></p><p>I want to get the penny verified but before I do does anyone know what a penny with this kind of an error would be worth? I looked everywhere trying to find a similar example on record and I could not find anything. Thank you for any information anyone has.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Tom987, post: 4626252, member: 113706"]Over the past few months I have started looking for penny errors and interesting things like that. Recently I went to a market and came across a booth with lots of steel pennies. They where mostly all corroded and in real bad shape. Then I saw this one mixed in with them. I got it because it looked interesting and I thought it was in real great shape. Later when I got time to look at it more closely I saw the date of 1951 S. I did some research since I thought it was a steel penny with the wrong date on it. I came across several posts saying that most pennies that are like this are plated with mercury or nickle. I was a bit curious on this one so I did some extra testing. I first tested the weight which was 3.4 grams. This is way heavier than the steel penny which from my research seems to run at 2.7 grams. I also read that the plating that is normally found on the pennies do not add weight like that to a penny. I then tested to see if the penny was magnetic which all of the plated pennies I could find info about are not. I first started with a weak magnet which was highly attracted to the penny. After this i used a normal magnet which also stuck and was attracted to the penny. This was the biggest factor that was different from what I have seen elsewhere. It did not have the magnetic strength of a steel penny so I decided it was probably not a steel penny. I wanted to compare the magnetic properties of a similar coin so I tested it against a 100% nickle Canadian which showed the same level of magnetic properties as this penny. I want to get the penny verified but before I do does anyone know what a penny with this kind of an error would be worth? I looked everywhere trying to find a similar example on record and I could not find anything. Thank you for any information anyone has.[/QUOTE]
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