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<p>[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 256663, member: 66"]Death52502</p><p>Your post seems to imply that you also own a "white" 1959 cent that is strongly attracted to a magnet. Now 99.99% of all of the "white" cents that are reported turn out to be merely a plated cent. If the plating is a heavy one of nickel or chrome it can be weakly attracted to a magnet but not strongly attracted. Most of the coins that are NOT just plated are cents struck on dime planchets. These are lighter in weight and are also not magnetic.</p><p><br /></p><p>Very rarely you will find a cent that is struck on a foreign planchet. (The Mint struck coins or made planchets for foreign countries until 1984, and for Iceland in 2000) If this is the case then it will probably also be light weight. It is possible to go over a list of possible coins/planchets if we know the weight. Still something like that is just a random occurance not something special to 1959. And it would not be an experimental alloy test as the mint had no reason to conduct such experiments in 1959.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 256663, member: 66"]Death52502 Your post seems to imply that you also own a "white" 1959 cent that is strongly attracted to a magnet. Now 99.99% of all of the "white" cents that are reported turn out to be merely a plated cent. If the plating is a heavy one of nickel or chrome it can be weakly attracted to a magnet but not strongly attracted. Most of the coins that are NOT just plated are cents struck on dime planchets. These are lighter in weight and are also not magnetic. Very rarely you will find a cent that is struck on a foreign planchet. (The Mint struck coins or made planchets for foreign countries until 1984, and for Iceland in 2000) If this is the case then it will probably also be light weight. It is possible to go over a list of possible coins/planchets if we know the weight. Still something like that is just a random occurance not something special to 1959. And it would not be an experimental alloy test as the mint had no reason to conduct such experiments in 1959.[/QUOTE]
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