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Hi, I took my reliable digital camera and a desklamp to Frank's house today and photographed the coin. He said he was given the coin as it is by his Dad about 70 or so years back. Frank dropped the coin a couple of times on the floor to demonstrate he didn't think it was silver, it didn't make a silver tinkling noise but a regular bronze penny sound. The coating was shinier but over the years has tarnished somewhat. The next step will be to take it to a uni as recommended earlier in the thread for some testing.

I'll ask him if he wants that, i've only met him once and he is 83 years of age. The finish is beautiful making me think that it could be a coat of nickel, 'Electroless Nickel plating is a process that has many advantages over 'electrolytic' processes in an engineering environment. The coating can be used in many fields where a hard, corrosion resistant finish is required. A major advantage of the process is that it is possible to coat the whole surface of an item EVENLY, including internals, unlike electrolytic processes which have difficulty depositing into recessed and internal areas and can result in excessive build-ups on points, corners, etc. The thickness of the plating film is usually measured in micrometers'

Hi Geoff, It was one of these ones But a nicer silver finish ! I thought maybe it was made for Canada,India or some other British commonwealth country at the time ?

Hi, I visited an old fellow last week who brought out some of his coin collection. One coin was wrapped in cotton, he showed it to me , it was a silver English Penny, Edward the seventh, 1902. Can someone tell me if any 1902 silver finished pennies were issued? I did some research and it is not a Maundy Penny but a regular one. I thought it could have been nickel coated, it came from a Kalgoorlie (Australian) Minesite years back.