1939 no mint mark magnetic penny silver color.

if you can find a logical explanation why it is magnetic please enlighten me. because as far I am concerned from researching that nickel or nickel silver plating is not magnetic.

 

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thanks

 

Well.. I did my best to give you an answer. Send it to PCGS and make sure you give us the results. You are not the first person to show such a coin here on CoinTalk and it won't be the last!
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It is obviously plated after it was struck. There is no process in the US mint that plates coins after striking. There are numerous posts of silver colored cents on CT and all have been plated or possibly treated with Mercury. It is possible that to have cents struck on foreign blanks or dime blanks, but they look very different from your coin and would not weigh 3.1gms. Google some images of these to see for yourself (I believe paddyman98 has posted a few from his error collection on CT in the past).

 

.........how much does it cost to send in to Pcgs? I would take everyone's advice. Not a mint error.

 

The logical explanation is that these were school science projects for half a century or more. I did it in 6th Grade in the 1960's. There are a very_large_number of plated Lincoln Wheat Cents kicking around. That's the actual reason for your coin; nobody will force you to believe it so you're welcome to pay PCGS to learn this if you wish.

Nickel plating is magnetic. Your research has misled you.

 

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Hope springs eternal...send it in.

 

It is your money, send it in.

 

A friend of mine's father owned a chrome plating business growing up, we used to plate anything and everything; just because we could.

 

Very plainly plated. Most likely with pure nickel, which is magnetic on a worn (and possibly light weight to begin with) bronze cent.

 

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Then you need to research more. Pure nickel is attracted to magnets.

The "nickel" that makes up US coins is an alloy of 25% nickel, 75% copper, and isn't attracted to magnets at all. But if you plate a layer of pure nickel onto a copper coin, a magnet sure will pick it up. And it will look silvery. I've done it with my own home chemistry set. (Okay, I did order some nickel sulfate that wasn't originally supplied with the set, but it came from the same supplier.)

 

I have a 1938 with the same characteristics. It looks chromed but detail is very clear. I have had it forever, got it from grocery store change. I don't have a scale. Lately friends of mine have been getting old coins in change, Bremerton, Wa. area

 

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Please start your own thread. Thank you.

 

This thread is 5 years old. Best to start a new thread and post full sized photos of both sides of the coin. Welcome to CT.

 

Hi, welcome to CoinTalk. We tend to be obsessed with photos here and it would be nice if you could attach one. Other than that, the only coins the government has made that have been plated are the copper plated zinc cents and the zinc plated "steel" cents of 1943. Plated coins show up frequently, but are all done post-mint.

 

As @Kentucky says, your coin was plated probably as an experiment, maybe sold as a novelty. If it is attracted to a magnet, nickel. If not, probably silver.
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