1996 D Yellow Penny

I have a 1996 D penny it is yellow. Have looked online have heard everything from its a baked penny to its been dipped in chemical or coate to alter it. The fact is there are a few people out there that have this penny. If it was baked or altered then why just the 1996 D .. Why not bake or chemically alter another year. If it was possible to change the color simply by raising the tempature then why hasnt it been done to other years. I think this must be an error in the plating process. So then I have to ask why hasnt anyone come up with the correct answer.

My only problem with the altering theory is that its been reported in different parts of the country different years and only to the 1996 D. I would love to hear from an expert the truth..

 

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would need to see pics

 

The Mint has stated that is possible for a few zinc planchets to be retained in the plating bath too long and dissolve thereby changing it from copper to brass.

Alternatively, there are common high school experiments that turn the color of Lincoln cents into silver looking metal or a gold looking metal. Obviously if a teenager in high school was doing this, the particular cent they chose would be random and could be any year, including 1996D.

 

i found one while working at walmart...i kept it and it really does seem like 1996 D is a common one because that's what i have too...wonder why that same kind of penny keeps showing up

 

Poor pennies. Sometimes it seems like the most monsterous things can happen to a cent.

If there really is such a thing as a yellow cent, perhaps it can be coined the 'sunshine cent." Or maybe a cent with jaundice???? How does yellow fever sound?

And you know what they say about not eating yellow snow..... Oh boy, time to move on to another thread.

Keep us posted on this unusally sounding cent. Hope it's not a lemon.

 

Too funny

 

Gold plating not mentioned?

 

1983-2003

Some LMC planchet are noted as a Brassy strike.
a photo would help

 

jcuve hit the nail on the head
Link is a letter of explanation to Ken Potter from the U.S. Mint
concerning the Brass plated Lincoln Cents
found on Ken Potter's web site


http://koinpro.tripod.com/VarietiesUS/MintLetter.jpg

 

Does it look like the gold one in this picture?


Like jcuve said, it is possible that the cent was an experiment done in HS chemistry class. The experiment first coats the penny in zinc, then the coin is heated to alloy with the copper to make brass.

 

I presume your are talking about this experiment

Courtesy of: http://michaelsherlock.com Click to see how it's done

 

Ouch beaten to the punch I thought about posting my info yesterday but I crashed

 

would you like a lil 1985D AS WELL?
OR
1979
1983
1985
1988d
1988d
1994
1995
1997
1997
1997D

and the list goes on... BTW these show up every fall in our area, due to 3 locAl highschools within 3 miles, within the first 6 weeks these suckers are all over circulation. and then we got gold penny fever just in time for panic selling for da holidays

 

I'd venture to say that some years are more common to find these than others because the mint tries to adjust the entire minting process, including plating, for the best efficiency. I have read that '83 and '85 were pretty common to find those brass cents and for a while, I think they even carried a small premium just because of the hype, but I could be wrong.

 

I have a 1996 D yellow penny too and mine is magnetic idk how ive tried magnets on other pennies but they wont stick

 

1996 D yellow penny magnetic need some answers

 

Post better pictures obverse and reverse, also weigh the coin.

 

x2

 

I have a 1996 D yellow penny also. I got it working in Tampa Florida retail store. It came out of a roll of 1996 pennies from bank rolls. Regions bank.It stuck out like a broken thumb. I generally don't collect coins but I am keeping this one.

 

I have a 1994-D brass one.