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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Looks like someone broke a stack of brazed Lincoln cents apart. The left over brass welding material accounts for the extra weight.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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The hole in the coin was covered over with extra brass, thus now it weights more.
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Pillar of the Community
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The hole in the coin was covered over with extra brass, thus now it weights more. But why would any body bother to fill a hole with Brass on a Cent? It makes no "Cents" - It would take a temperature of 1710F to melt a brass rod to fill the hole - but then would also melt the coin in the process - Right? |
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I think this is a very interesting subject and a valid question from the OP. It interested me too so I ran it by a good friend of mine who is a jewelry maker. He is NOT a numismatic or coin guru at all. He said it appeared to be a failed attempt, most likely homemade, at creating a penny bracelet or charm of some type. We both noticed the posts, or the small raised dot looking things on the obverse and reverse, and my friend said it definitely looked to be braised or soldered (if I'm saying that correctly) in the attempt to join this coin to another one. Just my thoughts, I'm not an expert, but a lot of good questions here on this post.  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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If a jewelry want to do a bracelet the hole will be concentric on both parts, but his theorem expand to the the try to attache the coin to something also. If this was the case, just a bad newbies worker, and the coin detached fast. The spots are clear solder. And bad ones, probably an try with electrical one. A jewelry maker is complete different.
It is extra material on coin and affect the weight.
PS electrical brass molding need just 50A for brass and jewelry is 300 Celsius (572F).
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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I don't think it really matters exactly what happened as unless you were there you might not
really know. The important thing is that it could not happen during the striking of the coin
so it is some form of damage, not an error.
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Australia
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I think the failed weld concept is the answer.  My guess, Brazing Edited by PPorro
04/02/2021 12:51 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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@PPorro thanks for the diagram. I look for in my database but not find.
This diagram is for brass. In the case of this 1952 coin was suppose to use Cu + Ag + Sn to have almost same color and melt temperature between 400 to max 600 degrees Celsius for annoying and recrystallization.
thanks for the diagram (to many docs I have and old guy forgot to index all).
Edited by silviosi
04/02/2021 2:46 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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JimmyD had it right. This was not anything done by or at the Mint, so bottom line, what we are looking at here is not a mint error, it is simply, post mint damage ( PMD). We could fill up pages and pages here opining on what caused this damage, but in the end, it's still post mint damage. As Coinfrog said eloquently above, "Piece of PMD junk spender."  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Yes, thanks for the image. I've already had it stuffed an mounted into the educational files:  |
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Canada
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@COOP just ask what you look for? I can send a lot.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Well the coins I'm pretty good with. (almost 12K so far) I just add stuff that I don't have, yet. Edit them and help them walk down the aisle. (For then to look good for the camera) Most of the time, they images I might need are already on file. Just new stuff I add that I don't have, or an image is better than what I already have. I even have a few ugly coins:  Edited by coop
04/02/2021 8:17 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I was never good on forensic humanoids, nice coin copy of photo of the president 7 years after inhumation?
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Do you mean Exhumation? They had to bury him in cement, to to keep people from stealing him, again.
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