1977 D Lincoln Penny - Gold? PMD?

Hello All,

Found this one recently and I'm not sure if it's gold or if it's some sort of error or just pmd. WHATS CONFUSING ME IS THAT THERE ARE MARKS THAT HAVE COLLIDED WITH THE COIN BUT STILL SHOWS THE GOLD COLOR. Thank you all for helping ahead of time.







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All Post Mint Damage
There are no real gold Cents. Maybe plated in a school science lab experiment.

It's well circulated with obvious circulation marks. Plated after all the marks occurred on the surface.
You would think that someone at one point would of noticed since 1977 that there was a gold Cent in their possession. (if it were real gold)

 

There have been a few Indian Head Cents struck on 2 1/2 Dollar Gold Planchets over 100 years ago. They are very rare and most likely Mint Assisted.
Not my coins! 1900 and 1905

 

So if I weighed it should be 3.1 grams correct?

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Plated, painted or messed with by a schoolyard Einstein.

 

I made these a lot in school. I forgot the chemical, but basically if you took a pre 1982 cent that was 95% copper, we would plate it in zinc using zinc pellets and again i forgot the chemical, but you would heat up the cents with the zinc pellets, they would turn silver in color, and then pull them out of the solution and burn them over a Bunsen burner and the silver color would turn gold. Alchemists who did this believed they were actually changing copper into gold at first.

 

PFP or Made to fool people

 

Which background, if any, are the correct color?

 

They are closer to the middle two pictures.

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Or close to that. If it were actually gold it would be closer to 6 grams.

 

Just a curious question, how can you determine if a penny is made out of bronze? Is there a certain weight for it?

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Bronze and Copper are the same thing. It's heavier than the newer Copper plated zinc Cents.
Now Brass is a different story

Brass is a mix of copper and zinc.
Bronze is a mix of copper and other metals like tin or arsenic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze

 

And copper, bronze, and brass all have pretty much the same weight and specific gravity. The only real way to tell them apart for sure non-destructively is XRF analysis.

 

Can u guys tell me if its double die my 72 penny

 

I see no doubling. Only a slight Misaligned Die Strike.
The correct term is Doubled Die not Double.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubled_die

 

I got some 4600 1977, 1979, 1980 all d and about 300 random years from 2015 to 1948 were would i go to get them valued or apraised

 

I am a bit confused, just normal circulated cents? If so then they are worth one cent each, maybe two cents each for the wheat cents.

 

I found one too

 

I found one 1977d gold in color, what ever did you found out about it , -Edited - please post.