CRH find, help identify?

[DanFromOhio]

Hello All, first post ever. I am fairly green, but have done some CRH in the past. Recently started again, picked up a penny box yesterday, and found this 1976 silver colored cent. I can't decide whether its an error, cleaned, or fake, or what....can a copper be cleaned until it's "white" ?

I am hoping it's a dime planchet error, but

What's the thoughts from experts on here?

 

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[Icewing]

It looks to have been zinc plated.
Possibly a high school chemistry class project.

I remember having made some change colors like this
and dropping newer zinc pennies in hydrochloric acid, which caused the zinc to dissolve leaving only the copper foil exterior.

 

[enamel7]

It's definitely been plated after it left the mint. Technically it's damaged.

 

[Dozer D]

If you think it's on a dime planchette, then weigh it on a x.xxg scale to answer that part of the question.

 

[Diggin-N-Dumps]

Zinc Plated. I have several Wheat pennies like this. They appear to be the exact same size.

 

[smokeythecat]

Welcome. I agree on zinc plating. It is too big for a dime planchet and the color is wrong for that. Keep looking, there are goodies out there still. I got a 1995 double, or is that doubled, I always forget, Lincoln that I had graded and it graded MS-67 in a roll somebody dumped at a local bank. That was 2 years ago. Still have it.

 

[LooseChange]

Hi Dan.

As others have said, Zinc coated cents are fairly common finds. Keep plowing through rolls and boxes, and you'll find some cool stuff.

Good photos btw.

 

[Dozer D]

Was going thru a bag of cents from a branch bank last night, good number of wheats (about 12, only half finished) and pulled a 1919P & 1929P, both worn & readable, and yet still old finds. Cents can always be fun to hunt.

 

[Rookster]

Welcome to Tnet from Mississippi.

 

[DanFromOhio]

Thanks all. Yes, after weighing and further inspection I think it's just a plated coin. Thanks for the input.
I am working on filling a Dansco 7100 1909-2009 Lincoln Cents album, roughly 70% complete. Likely to have to purchase the keys, but hoping to come across semi-keys in the wild, who knows, maybe just wishful thinking.
Enjoying the hunts, and have my 13YO son interested as well, which is probably the most important part....he actually found a decent condition 1906 IHP in a CRH so we've had some luck
Cheers
Dan

 

[Dozer D]

DanFO: keep your son interested in CRH & coin collecting, and away from the TV & video games. All my 5-kids grew up overnight and didn't even know that I had a very large coin collection that my dad & I started in the mid-60's. I just wish to this day that I would have involved them into coins, rather than me working all the time, with one full time and three var part time jobs just to keep dinner on the table & gas in the tank. I find CRH & coin collecting as a great hobby to learn history from a different angle. Now to try to instill the hobby into any one of my 13-grand kids, starting with pennies (which are always fun, never know what you might get). Once again, welcome to the TN.

 

[fistfulladirt]

JCWhitney home plating kits were all the rage when I was a kid.