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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 62854, member: 669&quot;]Hi concise, and welcome to the forum.&nbsp; In the future please post an inquiry in one, and <i>only</i> one sub-forum.&nbsp; The following is a reply I made to your identical inquiry in a different thread, before discovering that several people had responded in this one.</p><p><br /></p><p>From your mention of the &quot;D&quot;, I&#039;m assuming that you have a U.S. cent from the Philadelphia Mint, not an English or other British Commonwealth country&#039;s penny.&nbsp; Either way, I&#039;m sorry to tell you that you don&#039;t have a silver anything.&nbsp; The last English silver pennies were minted well over 100 years before 1960, and the only silver-colored U.S. cents ever minted were the 1943 steel-plated zinc ones made when World War II copper shortages were extreme; and <i>possibly</i> some aluminum test coins, which as I recall were reportedly produced in the early &#039;70s.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.cointalk.org/newreply.php?do=newreply&amp;p=62734" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.org/newreply.php?do=newreply&amp;p=62734" rel="nofollow">&gt;&gt; Click here &lt;&lt;</a> to learn how your coin was probably treated to create its silver color.</p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;ring&quot; you describe is most likely something like this:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.rexdalepublishing.com/new-dough-front.5.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Known as &quot;encased cents&quot; they are of no numismatic value, and the coins themselves (even if otherwise worth something more than face) are considered damaged and worth only face value.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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