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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;pennylman1973, post: 3046693, member: 94559&quot;]Thanks for all the replies!</p><p><br /></p><p>Well i took a sharp knife and put a groove in the edge of it and looked at it with a magnifying lens and flashlight.&nbsp; Seeing as how its probably worthless i wasn&#039;t to worried about harming any value. I still don&#039;t see any copper color coming through. </p><p><br /></p><p>I asked the dealer if the coin was plated with something would his machine be able to tell.&nbsp; He said yes and the did a test on a copper plated zinc penny to prove it.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>He also said there weren&#039;t any zinc planchets used around that time which is what had him puzzled. </p><p><br /></p><p>If it was dipped in mercury, would that give a false positive of zinc?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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