any answers about this 1975 penny

Very pertinent line of inquiry.

 

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I was just wondering about that myself.

 

Your cent has been plated or painted by someone outside the mint.

 

it's all good everyone has they right to opinion and to respond I asked for answers but lmao cause I have couple other ones different dates I've seen what ol boy is referring to and this just isn't that that I really don't know but it's neat

 

I truly do appreciate feedback and this is light conversation about something neat about something obviously we all enjoy I can't say no it's not with 100 percent certainty but I'm just saying I've done the coin experiment lol

 

@dhappel86
The only coated Cents ever minted in the US were the 1943 Zinc Coated Steel Cent and the Current post 1982 Copper plated Zinc Cents.. That's all

 

this isn't even anything like that I wish it was cause I don't have an answer yet I think I will just send it in paint or some other method it's very great possibility but what

 

thank you

 

If you Search the Coin Talk archives, you'll see hundreds of posts asking about coins similar to yours. In addition, check the web and CT archives for information on the minting process. You'll see that it's not possible for the US Mint to produce a cent from a planchet that's plated with anything besides copper. Just not going to happen.

If you are interested in Error Coins, I strongly recommend learning about the minting process. The more you know about the process, the better you'll be at spotting real errors. Knowledge is the key. Many on here have been in this hobby for decades and have spent countless hours learning and observing.

 

They have been given our opinions, if they still want to spend the money to send it in that is their business. All I ask is that once it comes back they return and either they, or we get to eat a little crow.

 

Never gonna happen.

 

What happens at 6?

 

After looking at the pennies in the pictures above, it was my instant and gut feeling that all of them were altered in circulation by various actors; some using (probably) metallic spray paint and by others with nail polish or another type of lacquer.
The 1940 penny is interesting in that the alteration looks as if it was done some time in the far, dim past, so the substance used is worn smoother and harder to identify. And don't forget about all of us kids in our basements, fooling around with our chemistry sets!
One last thing. Given what it costs to produce and distribute pennies; Canada raised the white flag a few years ago; would it make fiscal sense to add another step in the minting process to extend the life of a consumable, expendable product?
Thanks, dhappel86, for raising a thought-provoking question.

 

so I finally received a response back and I will be sending it in for authentication but the answer I got was it appears to be a minting error "struck through cloth" Well I got an answer learned something and still feel a little like "huh" lol

 

Somebody with knowledge of error coins suggested your 1975 cent in the original post was struck through cloth? I agree with your "huh" statement. How would that affect the color? Plus there is too much detail on that cent to be struck through cloth.

@paddyman98 has been collecting errors for years and maybe he has something in collection like that, but here are some pics of struck through cloth and they don't look anything like yours. Keep us informed on the attribution.


Pic from Lincolncentsource


Pic from Sullivan numismatics

 

I don't really know anything about the frankensteining of the common cent using home chemistry sets, but on the other hand there was quite a bit of rather eager trial-and-error experimentation among us youngsters using the application of either the ever larger hammer or the occasional passing 200 hundred ton locomotive, with both methods becoming a rather popular pre-teen pastime as a result of their effectiveness at being such extremely dramatic and obviously irreversible coin modifiers.

 

Who told you this?
That is not a struck through cloth

 

That is a struck through cloth!

 

thank you so much and they are very very close and I have been digging cause I think I have some around that date that may be similar