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Your penny has almost certainly been plated with either silver, nickel, or zinc -- making it a novelty item with very little collector value. One common bit of "fun" kids used to have would be to dip a copper penny into Mercury. This resulted in a silvery plating that was attractive at first, but later turned quite dull. This was before the threat of mercury poisoning became well-known. In general, plating any type of coin with any type of substance reduces the market value, although any coin is always "worth" face value. This coin could be an error type called 'Wrong Planchet', if so it could be worth up to $225.00.

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