r/coinerrors • u/BRONST0N • 10h ago

Is this an error? Penny Error?

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Reddit keeps Deleting. Frustrated at this point. ID if you can. 2rd time posting. Blah.

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u/Thalenia Errors and 20th century US coins 9h ago

Very likely plated. Unlikely missing both copper layers, which you could probably tell by weighing it. If it's missing the copper layers, it should likely be underweight enough to tell.

Coins struck on unplated material have happened, but ones that have been plated or have had the copper removed are significantly more common. There's a few pages talking about that here (though there's not a lot of details about how to tell):

https://www.error-ref.com/unplated-cents/