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Posted: **Fri Mar 25, 2011 4:00 pm**

Found this while opening up some rolls, it stood out like a sore thumb. Could this silver penny be a mistake from the mint and be all zink or could it be part of a science project? What do you know of the rarity of a penny struck without a copper coating? The penny is a 1988.

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Posted: **Fri Mar 25, 2011 4:06 pm**

YEA MAN NICE FIND...IT LOOKS SHINEY ...FROM THE MINT WITH NO COPPER...DULL...SCIENCE PROJECT.

NOT THAT RARE, THEY HAPPEN. I THINK EVERY ESTABLISHED MEMBER HERE HAS ONE....PROBABLY RARER THAN INDIAN HEADS.

Posted: **Fri Mar 25, 2011 4:24 pm**

Hey cool thanks for the info. It's really shinny!

Posted: **Fri Mar 25, 2011 8:54 pm**

I found an uncoated zinc, but it's quite dull. Could someone have plated it with one of those Ebay kits?

Posted: **Fri Mar 25, 2011 10:20 pm**

Be careful it's not a (sic) reglar ol penny with mercury smeared all over it. Back when we were kids, early 60's, you used to bust open a glass thermometer and gather up the mercury and rub it on pennies to make them shine. :shock:

Yep, some of us are even still alive to tell the tale, and it's true.

Posted: **Fri Mar 25, 2011 11:36 pm**

100% without a doubt.....chrome plated. I have a bud that has done a few of them at his shop. I have 1973 Chrome Abe in a 2x2

Posted: **Sun Mar 27, 2011 10:01 pm**

Looks like somebody nickel plated it. We sometimes do that at the plating shop for the fun of it.

Posted: **Sun Mar 27, 2011 10:37 pm**

Here's a link on how to make "silver" or "gold" pennies.

http://chemistry.about.com/od/chemistryhowtoguide/a/goldsilverpenny.htm

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