Please tell me this is what I think it is...

[Coppercrazy]

 

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[LooseChange]

Weight it.

The modern cent weighs 2.50g and is composed of 97.5% Zn and 2.5% Cu by weight. There should be 2.4375g of Zn and 0.625g of copper in a normal minted coin.

If it weights anything below 2.5g, it is probably unplated zinc. If it weighs 2.5g and your scale doesn't go to 100ths of a gram, you don't really know for sure. If it weighs over 2.5g, it is very unlikely to have been struck on an unplated planchet.

 

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[Coppercrazy]

I do not have a scale unfortunately. :/

 

[MentalUnrest]

What is interesting is that not many people know about this error. Checking eBay, some sellers asking $100's of dollars. Couple sold for over $100.

Most did not sell and I even saw few that started at under $10 with no bids.

I fit into the "no clue" crowd.

 

[Coppercrazy]

Well the Lincoln cent resource says there are many fakes out there, so grading and slabbing is very important if you want to sell.

 

[BuffaloBoy]

It looks like a zincoln that sat in the zinc solution too long in a "brass penny" chemistry lab that did not get heated to turn "gold"....

 

[sagittarius98]

I'm new, but I think those are pennies.

I think they are cents.

 

[BuffaloBoy]

Sag... let's not start this childish game again...

I think they are cents.

 

[Sleepy Holow]

^^

 

[ckrakowski]

if you think those are coins then yes they are what you think they are.