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    bronze, gold or copper plating

    Is this coin bronze, gold, or copper plating? Both sides are the same color, even the side edges.
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    It is hard to tell without a comparison cent next to the one that you have pictured.

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

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      bronze, copper or gold comparison

      Trying to see if the middle coin is bronze, copper or gold. I have used two other coins for comparison. Hope this helps.
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      • #4
        Originally posted by Lavent View Post
        Trying to see if the middle coin is bronze, copper or gold. I have used two other coins for comparison. Hope this helps.
        I can tell you this , The 1981 has clash marks..
        Still the best "Nickel Trail Die Hunter". 2013 ((MIKEE)) T.Davis

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        • #5
          Bronze coin?

          Thanks for the info on the 1981. What about the color on the other, what do you think? Were there bronze 1981 pennies or gold ones?

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          • #6
            The only consideration for the coin pictured that I can offer is that it is possibly plated and used in ceremony. I have run across a number of these Lincoln cents (one at the FUN show) in both gold and silver and have heard that they are part of the Mason's initiation (????).

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

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            • #7
              hard to say from photos, but the surface looks a tad matte making me think it was plated or painted, maybe as BJ suggests, for some event. I do not think it is a Mint error.
              Jason Cuvelier

              CONECA
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