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<p>[QUOTE="desertgem, post: 4195581, member: 15199"]There are examples of off metal coins such as a cent struck on a planchet sized for a dime and thus the design is incomplete because the dime is much smaller.</p><p>example ; </p><p><a href="https://www.coinworld.com/news/precious-metals/cent-struck-on-dime-planchet-headed-to-auction.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.coinworld.com/news/precious-metals/cent-struck-on-dime-planchet-headed-to-auction.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.coinworld.com/news/precious-metals/cent-struck-on-dime-planchet-headed-to-auction.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>And there are others known that were non-mint made counterfeits in various metals , and the majority are plated. It was common in the 60s-70s and many are still seen. It even appeared in ads from coin magazines.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1076844[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>They do not furnish the steel cent or they would be guilty of federal laws.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also in the 60-70s high school chem labs upped their 'sputnik' response to enhance response to USSR science, so more experiments were done and this one resulted in thousands of plated cents. Zinc and Copper were cheap and easy ones to do. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.sciencecompany.com/Turn-Copper-Pennies-Into-Silver-and-Gold-Pennies.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sciencecompany.com/Turn-Copper-Pennies-Into-Silver-and-Gold-Pennies.aspx" rel="nofollow">https://www.sciencecompany.com/Turn-Copper-Pennies-Into-Silver-and-Gold-Pennies.aspx</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Also many Utubs and other such disregard the fact that Zinc is not real Silver, they just go by "Silver" as a color to grab the uninformed.</p><p><br /></p><p>IMO, Jim[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="desertgem, post: 4195581, member: 15199"]There are examples of off metal coins such as a cent struck on a planchet sized for a dime and thus the design is incomplete because the dime is much smaller. example ; [URL]https://www.coinworld.com/news/precious-metals/cent-struck-on-dime-planchet-headed-to-auction.html[/URL] And there are others known that were non-mint made counterfeits in various metals , and the majority are plated. It was common in the 60s-70s and many are still seen. It even appeared in ads from coin magazines. [ATTACH=full]1076844[/ATTACH] They do not furnish the steel cent or they would be guilty of federal laws. Also in the 60-70s high school chem labs upped their 'sputnik' response to enhance response to USSR science, so more experiments were done and this one resulted in thousands of plated cents. Zinc and Copper were cheap and easy ones to do. [URL]https://www.sciencecompany.com/Turn-Copper-Pennies-Into-Silver-and-Gold-Pennies.aspx[/URL] Also many Utubs and other such disregard the fact that Zinc is not real Silver, they just go by "Silver" as a color to grab the uninformed. IMO, Jim[/QUOTE]
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