On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 18:42:12 -0800, "J. Craton"
wrote:

Cankersore wrote:

I got a penny as change for a dime in a store the other day, and was
wondering if any of you fine people here would know what it might be worth.
Any help to find out if you don't know would be helpful as well. Thanks.

Do you have an image? It could be a non plated lincoln cent

I think I have one of those. Certainly no copper on it.

or it could
be a lincoln cent struck on a dime planchet.
It could also be an altered lincoln cent that someone either painted
silver

Possible, though more likely dipped in mercury.

or someone dipped it in a solvent and it ate the copper plating off.

Unlikely. This one is trotted out every time someone says they have a
"silver penny". Just about anything that can eat copper will probably
also vaporise the underlying zinc, which as we all know is a very poor
metal to use for coins. Nick a zinclon sometime and drop it in a weak
muriatic (if I recall the experiment right) acid bath. After a couple
days you'll have a shiny shell of copper.

Padraic.

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