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Message:: [QUOTE="Billofrights, post: 3098999, member: 95469"][ATTACH=full]784006[/ATTACH] Hello everyone!  This is my first posting in the CoinTalk forums.  May I say everyone in these forums is quite knowledgable & whitty at the same time. I wish I had something more spectacular to show you on my first posting.  Perhaps I do but that is where I need members opinions.  I discovered this 1968 D Lincoln Penny last week while searching through a box of pennies I purchased at my bank.  It has all the minting of a Lincoln penny but the outer edge looks more like a nickel.  It weighs exactly 3.0 grams & is not magnetic.  I took it to a local coin shop hoping they would be able to tell me the metal composition.  Unfortunately they could not.  The store owner looked at it and replied, "Looks like just a penny to me." So now before I venture anywhere else I would like the opinion of the members here.  Perhaps someone in the past chemically altered this coin?  Maybe it is one of the zinc coated pennies I have read about?  I'm totally open to opinions & suggestions.[ATTACH=full]784006[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]784007[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]784008[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]784006[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]784007[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]784008[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]784010[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]784012[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]784012[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]784015[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]784016[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]784017[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]