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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 2667602, member: 59677&quot;]You came here to ask our advise. Asking for more information is fine.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Sarcasm when you&#039;re the one asking is getting close to the line where many of us will write this thread off. Just an FYI...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>How do we know it&#039;s plated? Because there&#039;s almost no way to come from the mint like that.&nbsp; Cents are made of zinc with a very thin plating of copper. So it&#039;s possible to have an unplated zinc planchet (the metal disk that is pressed to make a coin). But when that happens, it doesn&#039;t look like your coin - see <a href="http://www.error-ref.com/unplated-cents/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.error-ref.com/unplated-cents/" rel="nofollow">http://www.error-ref.com/unplated-cents/</a> - it doesn&#039;t have a uniform smooth surface.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now it could be another metal, a planchet made for a foreign coin that the US Mint was making at the time. Occasionally a planchet gets stuck in the big hoppers they use and could fall out the next time it&#039;s used. To tell that (there are records of what the mint struck for which countries) we need an accurate weight of the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>This (<a href="http://minterrornews.com/news-5-13-03-foreigners_in_the_mint.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://minterrornews.com/news-5-13-03-foreigners_in_the_mint.html" rel="nofollow">http://minterrornews.com/news-5-13-03-foreigners_in_the_mint.html</a>) is an interesting article, but there&#039;s nothing in there remotely like a 1994 striking of ANYTHING.</p><p><br /></p><p>If it weighs 2.5 grams, it&#039;s a plated US Cent.</p><p><br /></p><p>If it weights something else, it&#039;s certainly worth exploring.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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