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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4141562, member: 19463&quot;]There was a time when I was much younger that we threw pennies in well used photo fixer (containing a lot of silver from the images it had fixed). They came out silver color.&nbsp; We did it for the fun of it without intent of fooling anyone but I could see how a LRB could be stripped and plated to &#039;make it look better&#039; using this method.&nbsp; These coins have been around for a long time and some have passed through many hands.&nbsp; &#039;Serious&#039; collectors did not pay much attention to common LRB&#039;s even 30 years ago so they were available for use as playthings.&nbsp; I have no idea why your coin was plated but I can see a number of reasons that might be explained as, &#039;Because we can.&#039; </p><p><br /></p><p>I will also point out that we rubbed the mercury from broken thermometers on coins&nbsp; to make them shine brightly.&nbsp; This was long before anyone (at least parents) knew that playing with mercury was hazardous and it was fun to push around a tabletop making little drops join into a larger one.&nbsp; Yes, it might be a miracle that anyone now over 70 survived childhood.&nbsp; I remember my father taking me out to watch low flying airplanes spraying crops.&nbsp; Everyone used DDT then but this was a decade before Rachel Carson published &#039;Silent Spring&#039; suggesting that the pestacide might kill kids like me as well as crop pests.&nbsp; My father was not abusing his son; he was making him a normal boy in that time and place.&nbsp; Things like this make plating a few coins &#039;for fun&#039; seem not so hard to understand.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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