Hi I was just wondering if anyone has come across this before I thought it was pretty unique just wanted to know if I have something legitimate
Based on your photos, you have an error - the grey areas on both sides are from the zinc core - those areas didn't receive the copper plating properly. Scarce, not rare, and I would estimate it's a $20-$25 retail item, or thereabouts.
Great thank you for your information I picked this up at Starbucks the other day and thought it was something unusual.
Thanks @Fred Weinberg i knew I kept this for a reason. Couldn't get an answer till I saw this. Appreciate it.
It's a partial missing clad layer. Zinc cents do have a clad layer. I don't understand why everyone says cents don't have a clad layer. Doesn't matter how the metal covers something,as long as metal covers something it is metal clad. Example, wooden boat with iron riveted to outside. (Iron clad) Nickel plated copper. (Nickel clad). Silver plated copper. (Silver clad). copper plated zinc (copper clad). Gold plated copper (gold clad).
Perhaps it's because "plated" helps differentiate between plated planchets and those that have been bonded to produce what we refer to as "clad" coinage?
Clad coins are minted from metal sheets that are pressed together under great pressure, making them adhere strongly to each other. Pennies are electroplated, a process that bonds the copper to the zinc using an electric charge. That is the difference, and a big difference it is, @steve.e.
Like I said no matter the process clad is clad!! The process of covering a ship in iron is a different process than coins. It's still an iron clad ship
No offense, Steve, but that's not the best example. Still, even if you were technically correct, there are benefits to separating the two.
