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<p>[QUOTE="jloring, post: 1562224, member: 15518"]Back in the "good old days" we would apply a coat of liquid mercury to both sides of a Lincoln cent. For awhile, it would shine like a silver proof... but after a few days it would begin to get dull, eventually taking on the appearance of your coin. So that would be my guess. Other methods would be to carefully dip the coin in molten lead or similar, coating only the obverse and reverse surfaces (notice what appears to be "splatter" on the edge). Someone messed with this coin awhile back... and now you are the proud owner! Anyway, I keep all my odd-ball coins in a big jar... and there's plenty of 'em out there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="jloring, post: 1562224, member: 15518"]Back in the "good old days" we would apply a coat of liquid mercury to both sides of a Lincoln cent. For awhile, it would shine like a silver proof... but after a few days it would begin to get dull, eventually taking on the appearance of your coin. So that would be my guess. Other methods would be to carefully dip the coin in molten lead or similar, coating only the obverse and reverse surfaces (notice what appears to be "splatter" on the edge). Someone messed with this coin awhile back... and now you are the proud owner! Anyway, I keep all my odd-ball coins in a big jar... and there's plenty of 'em out there.[/QUOTE]
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