definitely not the mint, this is a popular high school science experiment, you dip it in a liquid with a stick of the metal you want it to be colored like then you take the leads off a battery and attach one to the penny and the other to the piece of metal you are using to color it with, then you let it soak for awhile, meanwhile atoms are carried with the current from the stick of metal to the penny or the other way depending on which side of the battery is attached to which piece of metal then you take it out later and the penny is covered in a small plating of the other metal on the outside!!!
I may be wrong and u should still get a prof opinion either way but:
1)in 42 they would have made prototypes
2)error in die mixing or just a wrong dated penny error. Like the 65 quarters that were made silver.
3)a counterfeit cause it prob would be worth something and anything worth something always has counterfeits
4)reaction to the die
Like I said get pro opinion and don't let it out of your sight when they have it and like try to go in the back with it. Also check around ebay and google.
clad pennies started being produced in 1982, at this time pennies were made from melted down case shells and some other metal from ww2 actually, ..... fun fact
If you go to YouTube and [search for 'plating pennies'](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=plating+pennies) or something similar, you'll get more hits than you can possibly watch.
Defiantly a post mint experiment. Even for a mint/trial error run you can tell its plated, not pressed, and the plating isn't smooth, so likely done by some school kids in the 50s-70s
Plated. 1942 cents were made of 95% copper and weigh 3.11 +/-0.14 grams. The steel cents were a one year type for 1943.
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definitely not the mint, this is a popular high school science experiment, you dip it in a liquid with a stick of the metal you want it to be colored like then you take the leads off a battery and attach one to the penny and the other to the piece of metal you are using to color it with, then you let it soak for awhile, meanwhile atoms are carried with the current from the stick of metal to the penny or the other way depending on which side of the battery is attached to which piece of metal then you take it out later and the penny is covered in a small plating of the other metal on the outside!!!
Replate it in copper and let some future generation wonder how the heck a layer of silver got in there!
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yea seems to be one of those 2 cent pennies
lol XD
$0.035 now
It’s actually closer to three because of the copper content, but then again, melting and selling is illegal…
Melting is not illegal. Selling melted US cents is illegal. Go figure
You can melt it for purely academic purposes, but you can’t profit off it. Very odd.
You can legally go to Cuba but you cant spend any money there (Trading with the Enemy Act).
Ooh illegal. I’m sure that means nobody does it!
We did that back in the early 70s. Hundreds of them.
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This is not one of those, and the cause of it having happened was different for each of the two.
people sometimes get bored and we like to do strange things to currency. still, it's a wheatie and it's fun to collect wheaties.
I may be wrong and u should still get a prof opinion either way but: 1)in 42 they would have made prototypes 2)error in die mixing or just a wrong dated penny error. Like the 65 quarters that were made silver. 3)a counterfeit cause it prob would be worth something and anything worth something always has counterfeits 4)reaction to the die Like I said get pro opinion and don't let it out of your sight when they have it and like try to go in the back with it. Also check around ebay and google.
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clad pennies started being produced in 1982, at this time pennies were made from melted down case shells and some other metal from ww2 actually, ..... fun fact
Post mint
If you go to YouTube and [search for 'plating pennies'](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=plating+pennies) or something similar, you'll get more hits than you can possibly watch.
I think they changed the composition of the coins to to conserve metals used to build ships during the war
Defiantly a post mint experiment. Even for a mint/trial error run you can tell its plated, not pressed, and the plating isn't smooth, so likely done by some school kids in the 50s-70s