2004 silver color Lincoln cent

I have a 2004 penney with no visible copper content. its just silver in color like a dime. Can’t find any info on this. Was there any minted?

 

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Hi Fastscan

Welcome to the forum !!

There were no silver pennies (cents) minted ,, If you can posts pics,scans of your cent,, It more than likely has been plated with some other metal,,

a normal copper plated zinc cent should weigh 2.5 grams ,, even plated the weight increase would be very minimal .

Rick

 

Thank you for the response.
Will try to get a pic of this penney.
Dont know about the weight yet, but when dropped from about 2" it dont sound like a penney. No "ring" to it, sounds dull.Dont know if plating can effect the sound that much.

 

It's prolly an error where the copper layer is missing. And zinc doesn't ring like the copper pennies minted before 1983.

 

Plated?...isn’t the copper all the way through.(alloy)
Does the mint report errors they may have went into circulation?

 

The mint trys not to make errors and when they do they try to find them before they leave the mint...if they don't they don't know anything about it...I would guess that your cent is plated.

Speedy

 

After browsing around the internet about Penney plating, I ran across this site, http://www.finishing.com/0000-0199/196.shtml
.... Apparently it’s quite common, I also heard it can be mercury!
...great! I may have a toxic Penney!. Still I would like to know for sure...should I shave the edge a bit?. Or would weighing be better?

 

Well I'm 99% sure its plated and therefor damaged...but I would weigh it...by shaving the edge it would make more damage.

Speedy

 

it is just a 2004 penny... why not cut it in half?



is it a wierd sixe? ( not as big as a penny )

If it is it may be a wrong planchet, a penny struck on a blank dime... in that case it would be worth some $...

on second thought post a picture before you cut it in half!

 

Here are two pics. Notice the interesing defect on the edege. My camera is low res.and does not show up that well. The defect is like a viod..

 

Plated or not that looks cool. The edge defect looks like someone already tried to check to see if it was authentic.

 

the only pennis i can think of that looks a dime is the 1943 pennies

 

I would guess plated...a dime planchet would be a tad smaller I think...I have seen 1 cent struck on dime planchet and it was neat!!

Speedy

 

the color not the size.

 

What??..

Speedy

 

I scraped the edge a bit and i see that copper color coming through....someone just plated it i guess..

 

i have a 1984 penny that looks just like that. i figured it was someone who just messed around with it, but i kept it anyways cause i thought it was neat

 

I have 2 pictures of silver color 1 cent, for comparison

has your coin the same color ?

 

1980 silver penny

I was searching the web for info on silver pennies also. I have a silver looking penny also dated 1980. Wanted to know if anybody has info if there is such a penny, or where I can look to get information on this.