Strange copper Kennedy half found

[RustyRelicHunter]

I found this copper colored half in a CRW recently and I am not sure what to make of it. Has anyone else seen anything like it? I thought it might be a copper planchet without the clad outer covering because the weight is 11.2 grams not the standard 11.34 grams. Any ideas?

 

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[ArkieBassMan]

Thats how clad will look when tumbled with copper cents. My guess is that it is a metal detecting find and spent some time buried in the ground. It was then cleaned by putting it in a tumbler with the aforementioned copper cents.

 

[UnderMiner]

I copper plated a quarter in school long ago using electrolysis, maybe some kid did the same to this coin.

 

[fistfulladirt]

1980's JC WHitney home plating kit.

 

[lonetown]

It's a clad coin and the outer layer has dissolved. I can show you dozens of them from under my apple tree tire swing.

 

[RustyRelicHunter]

Thanks! I didn't think it was anything special.

 

[GA_Boy]

Back in the early 50's when Mercury wasn't dangerous---LOL, I would put some in my left hand and with my right I would coat/rub a penny in the Merc until it was silver. I wouldn't let it touch my skin now that it's dangerous. How I survived, I haven't a clue.

 

[huntsman53]

I would not dismiss the O.P.'s coin so readily as having Post Mint damage due to some type of manipulation (i.e. tumbling, acid or other) as it may in fact be a 1974-P Kennedy Half Dollar which is missing the Cladding. I would advise contacting an Error Coin Examiner with Coneca, send him or her pics of the coin and ask their opinion. If they feel that it is a high possibility that the coin is an Error coin, then it would be best to send it to them for examination and attribution of the error. If you decide later to have the coin certified, graded and the Error noted on the label of the holder (attributed), the letter from the Coneca Error Coin Examiner will back up the attribution of the Error.

CONECA Examination Process

http://conecaonline.org/content/coneca_examiners.html


Frank

 

[RustyRelicHunter]

Hi Frank!

Thanks for this info; I will give it a try.

Russ