What does a steel cent sound like?

[kimonswanson643]

What does a steel cent sound like? I still have not found one I use the at pro. Any help appreciated

 

[airscapes]

steel would sound like big iron.. depending on the decomposition (amount of rust) moisture level, and length time in the ground it can ring up like silver but the vid will jump from iron all the way up.. at least that is how they look on the CM GT. Had a can top ring up as a 95 silver dollar the other day..

Duh,, cent not can.. must read all the letters..

 

[xr7ator]

My guess is that most of thoses, if they were lost back in the 50's or so, are no longer! Completeley rusted away and not even a disc left.

 

[redcobra8u]

Iron.

 

[Frankn]

I have found some years back in the ground and as I recall, they had a kind of white coating as if they had a plating.
We use to dip them in mercury in chemistry class. Almost look like nickels if you passed them fast enough. lol. Frank...-

 

[WhiteTornado]

I have found some years back in the ground and as I recall, they had a kind of white coating as if they had a plating.
We use to dip them in mercury in chemistry class. Almost look like nickels if you passed them fast enough. lol. Frank...-

My local detecting club has some which were used to seed the ground for a "no dig" hunt. They looked as Frank described, with a white coating. Instead of seeming like plating, though, the white substance on these looked and felt like it was corroded.

 

[cudamark]

The white coating is the zinc plating over the steel. Most steel cents you find are so corroded that they aren't worth anything. I've found a few in pocket spills with other wheats but never one by itself. It's just not worth the effort to dig all those iron sounds.

 

[wakeforestgold]

well i have some steel wheats pennies 1943. it is a normal coin but in steel. it is like whitish to silver. it is different color than the normal copper pennies.

i have thousands of wheats. i search a lot for valuable and key dates. thanks