1956 d silver penny?

http://s379.photobucket.com/albums/oo240/aallss2003/?action=view&current=1365873530183.jpg


Can anyone tell me about this and/or value?

 

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More than likely silver plated. Not much value over one cent.

Welcome to the forum aallss........

 

There are tons of chemistry experiments that can turn a penny silver or gold colored, but no, your penny is not made of silver. I can't really tell from the photo, but that's all I can think of. Welcome to CT, by the way! :welcome:

 

Some one used mercury to turn the penny that color That said it's worth a penny and wash your hands as Mercury is a heavy medal and very poisonness. BTW you may wish to remove the other two pictures of you know what from photo bucket album

 

Yeah, there's another good reason to refrain from handling mercury-contaminated items...!

 

I believe this coin is plated, either bright nickel or bright zinc. My experience with mercury (and I had plenty of it back in the early 1950's) was that after a period of time, the mercury coating would turn rather dull, completely losing its shine.

 

I agree that the coin was plated outside the mint.
Keep up the hunt!

 

With out having it in hand?
All has been before I seen the post that it could be.
But if a Real 11c Graded $$? maybe $$$.
:welcome:

 

Oh no! I'm sorry.. I have dleted that! I thought it would just go to that one pic! Bahahahaa.


Thanks everyone.. I have another coin that I would like yall to look at! Will post in a new thread!!!

 

Not really tons, but one is more than enough. The coating is actually zinc and if you heat it up, it will alloy with the copper and give you a brass coating, known as the gold penny experiment.

 

Yeah, I kinda meant easy instead of tons, but I misspoke (mistyped?)....

 

We did get the metaphor (this old sod anyway)......stop apologizing already.......

 

I have a plated 59p, and I know a plated 60p exists. Welcome to the club!

 

most likely mercury coated ...mercury was no big deal 30-40 years ... and was used to shine up coins ..... in my high school they had 5-10 lbs of mercury for high school science experiments and everyone played with the stuff ...imagine that today ... Yikes

 

I doubt it unless it was done recently; as I stated, mercury applied to a coin doesn't retain it's shine for very long. Also, it's easy to tell mercury "by feel"; it's quite slippery.

 

My coin doesn't feel slippery and its has some yellowish toning around the letters, so its not zinc either. My guess its silver.

 

Once upon a time me and a friend made some silver-plated New York City subway tokens. Silver plating is not something to embark on lightly.

 

Might be zinc coated

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g_ml8tAnWE

 

I still believe it's bright zinc... often, when steel parts are being barrel plated, a worker would toss in a few Lincoln cents. There's many thousand of these examples out there, in addition to the ones done through "experiments". Less likely would be bright nickel or tin, followed by silver. All can show discolorization which emulates toning.

 

Hello..ive a 56-d penny and it is silver clad..although u expert's seem to say its from mercury or other chemicals...then how come there's no fading in the coin itself???