There were no US Mints in the Americas in the year 1018 There were no US Pennies in 1018 There was no US in 1018 People... Please review your titles before hitting the Create Thread button
The US hasn't made gold coins in 85 years. Where would they get the gold to make this penny? If they made a gold penny at the current price of gold, it would be much smaller than 1 grain of sand. Here's my gold plated penny (looks nicer in hand).
1 - it's not real. It's not a solid gold penny. If it is, you'll have to weigh it, and it will be much, much heavier than another 2018 cent. 2 - it could be that it looks different. Cents depending upon the environment, whether someone polished it, etc etc can look different. Just pay attention to more coin change and you will start seeing that. 3 - as mentioned above, if it is a gold, then it is likely gold plated. There are many science experiments where people do this. Plus, many, many third party companies plate coins (including gold) to resell to people. It's super-super thin plating and actually damages the value of the underlying coin. And the cost of recovery probably outweighs the gold value considering the cost of plating is less than the cost of recovery. one such vendor that gold plates coins is ==> https://www.merrickmint.com/24k-gold-plated-coins.html?limit=64 if you were to peruse ebay there's a ton there too ...
