silver colored injun

[Fishenfool]

why does this indian look silver?

 

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[Mackaydon]

Dipped in a silver colored solution?

 

[ClonedSIM]

It doesn't look mis-shappen at all, so it's probably not a wrong planchet strike, unless the mint was making cent-sized silver coins for some other country that year.

Mackaydon's right, it's probably been dipped.

 

[Fishenfool]

heres a better pic

 

[bradyboy]

I seem to remember seeing a few other posts similar to this
they basically said you can create the effect by some sort of school experiment
electrolysis , zinc / silver in a bath
Bradyboy

 

[diggerfororo]

When I was a kid, (a long time ago) we would coat copper coins with "Mercury" and they turned silver just like yours.

Les

 

[whitesid]

try weighing it with a scale that has at least a .1 gram accuracy. if you find a scale then post the weight on here. that will help out determining what it is.

 

[Mr.Jody]

Take a pencil eraser to a penny will do the exact same thing.I used to do it as a kid to have "pirate money"...

 

[ELVISFAN]

Silver plated

 

[minton7]

very neat coin.... id buy it if you decide to sell it

Randy