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: : It's a 99.9999% certainty you have a coin that was plated for some reason, maybe for use in jewelry or as a high-school chemistry experiment. 

: : The U.S. has of course never made a silver cent because it would contain more silver than a dime. All 1966 cents were struck in bronze and weigh about 3.11 grams.  If you can weigh it on a sensitive scale, or make a good old Popsicle-stick balance and compare it to another pre-1982 cent(*), you can see if it comes in at that weight.

: : (*) Cents made since mid-1982 are copper-plated zinc and weigh only 2.5 gm so they can't serve as an accurate comparison.

: Very slight chance that it is struck on a dime planchet in which cse it would weigh 2.27 grams and would show the typical "sandwich" edge that our current dimes and quarters do.  In any case the weight of the coin is answer to what it is.



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