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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ThomasJ, post: 369784, member: 13872&quot;]I found this in my change about a month ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>I took about 300 pictures with my digital and these are the best of the bunch.</p><p><br /></p><p>The color is accurate.</p><p>I believe this is a non plated zinc penny. It is non-magnetic.</p><p>I have had one professional take a look at it but I do not believe he wanted to do a complete inspection. He suggested that an acid bath could cause this but I tend to disagree. From the research I have done it is very difficult to remove the copper from the zinc as zinc is much more reactive than copper. The one way that I found that could do so involves enough poison to kill a city block of people. As such i doubt it was the latter. </p><p><br /></p><p>It may not be apparent of the obverse but the F G is still present on the coin leading me to believe that some form of abrasion was not used.</p><p><br /></p><p>So the reason I am here is I am wondering is it possible that a coin did not get included in the plating process. If so could said coin make it to the actual minting process. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/1462/coin1xx2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/8604/coin2jw1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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