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just found this outside on the street lol!

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    just found this outside on the street lol!

    it weighs 2.2 grams on my triple beam-so the question is -Damage,mutilation or error?
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    It's in such miserable condition that I don't think there's any way to establish if it ever was a genuine unplated cent. You really only want to deal with BU specimens.
    Mike Diamond. Error coin writer and researcher.

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      here is a strange thing-look at this similar SAME DATE PENNY on ebay- http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWA:IT&ih=015 i hope this link works

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        More often or not, these coins are either chemical stripped of the copper or put through an electrolysis process that takes the copper away from the struck planchet.

        There are error specialists, like Mike Diamond, Fred Weinberg, Rich Schemmer, just to name a few, who can recognize which is the real unplated struck planchet and the ones that have tampered with. With the occasional found error like this, it is more than likely not genuine. However, on the outside possibility that it is, it should be verified by an expert familiar with this type of error.

        The link that you have given that is on Ebay is more than likely not the real deal and for those willing to take the chance that it maybe, it is they who more often will loose the gamble.

        BJ Neff
        Member of: ANA, CCC, CONECA, Fly-in-club, FUN, NLG & T.E.V.E.C.

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