Masonic Steel Penny - Looking for Help

[butchie_t]

My guess is that it is a copper penny that was dipped after the Masonic Emblem was etched into the penny. If you were to take a sharp scribe and scratch the edge with it, then look at it with a loupe, you would more than likely see a copper color where the scribe scratch was made.

You may even be able to see copper colorings now in the hole under magnification.

Butch

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by butchie_t

My guess is that it is a copper penny that was dipped after the Masonic Emblem was etched into the penny. If you were to take a sharp scribe and scratch the edge with it, then look at it with a loupe, you would more than likely see a copper color where the scribe scratch was made.

You may even be able to see copper colorings now in the hole under magnification.

Butch

The Masonic symbol is a stamping process. The first coin is the aluminum coin and the second is the zinc coated steel coin. With a some searching most if not all of the 1942 experimental coins have hit the market at one time or another.

When packs gets back to us with pics and a weight we will know a lot more.