Million dollar penny ?? PBK, someone, what is this thing??

[gold fish]

OK, I know this isn't the perfect place for this, I found it roll hunting, and technically I got it yesterday, blah blah..........

BUT, here's the story, I'm out for coffee with my wife and a friend of ours, I'm roll huntin' pennies(got a dozen wheats too !!). I "unwrap" one of the rolls and I see what looks like the smoothed edge of a clad dime, the first of many "what the hecks". I'm thinking, how did a dime make it into a penny roll?? So, I muster every ounce of self control I own( it's really not much) and start out at the end of the roll, just like a good boy, I'll get to that dime when I get to it. So, I get to the "dime", after fiding ANOTHER wheat , and it turns out that it is indeed a penny(insert what the heck(loudly) #2 here). I'm totally befuddled by this coin, really. What the heck is it??

I have looked it over very closely, it isn't painted, there is no raised area of paint(it was my very first thought, I swear). On the edge(which looks just like a clad dime in color) the transition between copper tones and silver tones is totally smooth, it also transitions like metal that has been compressed together. Is this a penny stamped out of a dime plate ??

Do not adjust your monitors, the silver you are seeing is real, this is no normal penny, do not be alarmed.

 

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[Doug Mauck]

Back around 1959 I was working in a metal plating shop for a railroad chrome-plating furniture pulls, etc., and just for fun I threw some pennies into the basket to see what they'd look like. I still have mine, but maybe someone else did the same thing. It's a 'kid' thing to do and there are a lot of kids working in plating shops all over the country.

 

[PBK]

Hi, Gold Fish—

I believe that Doug Mauck is right on the money: what you have found is a post-mint novelty created by electroplating an ordinary cent. If it had been struck on a dime planchet (blank) in 1959, the edge would not have the appearance of a clad dime. At that time, dimes were still 90% silver, not clad. So, the coppery edge color is from the cent itself, and is where the plating has worn through.

 

[gold fish]

Well, I'd say that I'm happy to have that off my mind, but it would have been cooler if it WAS worth a million. I'm still gonna have someone look at it in person, no offense, but it really strikes me weird. I do know about the 90% silver thing(I have found a merc or two, ya know ), the copper on the edge is actually what made my doubts.

 

[Night Stalker]

Back several years ago, my son (now in the Navy) bought a gold electroplating kit, he was electroplating engine parts for an old el camino. Anyways, I fooled around with it and electroplated quarters, dimes, nickels and some pennies...I imagine these coins ended up in someones collection...LOL.

Kids and bored parents do the darndest things...thanks for posting!

 

[TheSleeper]

Is it very smooth almost slippery, mercury rubbed onto copper gives that effect.

 

[Postalrevnant]

Pretty cool find all the same.

Congratulations,

Rev

 

[Alchemy]

Is it very smooth almost slippery, mercury rubbed onto copper gives that effect.

That's what I was thinking...

I know some people that had done that when they were kids (sheesh...can you imagine?)

What I want to know is, when I saw mercury (out of a thermometer) I couldn't imagine how one could get it to sit sill...lol...you know, to be able to rub it on to a coin

 

[TheSleeper]

What I want to know is, when I saw mercury (out of a thermometer) I couldn't imagine how one could get it to sit sill...lol...you know, to be able to rub it on to a coin

LOL its like me u just gotta wait for it to get slam tuckered out

 

[Michigan Badger]

Bummer! I was hoping you had something here.

I have a 1901 Indian cent with a piece of silver embedded into the Indian's head.

So far no one has been impressed with that find.

Keep lookin.

Badger