Has anyone seen anything like this? The photos don't do it justice - I couldn't hold my phone camera steady enough. It looks like an uncirculated 1944 copper cent, a strong strike, except it's silver in color, like a dime. The color in the obverse photo is accurate. The reverse is the same color. It is not attracted by a magnet. It weighs about 3g (my scale doesn't provide finer resolution). I found it in a box of old coins a friend game me. He has no idea what it is.
Could you give us photos of the edge? Most likely a plated cent, as you can see copper showing on the nicks of the rim. Welcome to CT BTW and thanks for posting full image photos.
I thought it might be silver-plated copper, but I've never seen one before and couldn't find any references to such a coin on-line. Do you suppose it might be worth something as a curiosity?
Not at all, because it's easy enough to make more. Back in the happy days when mercury was "interesting and fun" rather than "a deadly hazard", it was common to rub it onto the surface of a copper coin. It forms a silver-colored amalgam (alloy) with copper.
So does that mean the three or four silver cent experiments that I keep in my junk box are sharing mercury with me when I handle my junk box coins?
