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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Money is Freedom, post: 4557333, member: 113041&quot;]Quick question - See pic.&nbsp; When I drop it, it has a higher pitch than any other cent.&nbsp;&nbsp; Anyone know why?&nbsp; I&#039;m not a coin guy so I don&#039;t know much.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Long Story - 30yrs ago, I found this wheat cent on the side of a road.&nbsp; When I came home, I threw it on a table and noticed it had a cool tone to it.&nbsp; I threw it in a container with other wheat pennies and forgot about it, even after I moved a couple times.&nbsp; Unemployed now, so I&#039;m cleaning the house and found this container.&nbsp; Going thru the coins which are mostly worthless and beat up.&nbsp; I couldn&#039;t see the date at all until I gently cleaned with vinegar and carnuba liquid wax.&nbsp; The last digit is mostly gone, however you can make out &quot;194&quot; (Seeing it in person is a little more clear than picture).&nbsp; In one picture, it looks like a 2 but I was unable to take other pics showing that.&nbsp; In the other pictures, it could be a 3, 8 or 9.&nbsp; I tested and couldn&#039;t find any other coin that sounds like this one.&nbsp; I tried 1943 steel penny, Canadian, German, Hungarian coins, old, new, corroded worse than this cent.&nbsp; Nothing has this slightly higher pitch, yet musical &quot;ting, ting, ting!&quot; sound which is why I kept it.&nbsp; Did US make any weird coins made out of different alloys, other than Steel, Bronze or Copper during the 1940&#039;s?&nbsp;&nbsp; What does a Bronze cent sound like?&nbsp; I know beat up coins this bad aren&#039;t worth anything, but I just like this way it sounds and would like to know more about it.&nbsp;&nbsp; Thanks for any help and whoever started this great forum.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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