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Wow! That is unusual! A lot bigger!
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Fake lol just kidding neat find
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I believe that's a hammered cent. Coin is placed between 2 pieces of thick leather and whacked with a mallet. I've seen it mentioned in this forum several times.
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Weighs normal,is it thinner? Maybe some type of Texas Cent? John1  |
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Weighs normal,is it thinner? Surprisingly not - although it is just a "touch" bigger! Larger cent is in the middle.  Edited by Mark1959
01/23/2018 6:49 pm
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Rest in Peace
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That is a weird dog. It doesn't look like a hammered piece.
Foreign planchet?
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I think that @papadoc and @john1 are right that this is a Texas Cent. It wouldn't need to be very much thinner to get that modest amount of increase in diameter. "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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I believe that's a hammered cent. Coin is placed between 2 pieces of thick leather and whacked with a mallet. I've seen it mentioned in this forum several times. True - but they are thin and out of round.  |
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Where the heck is crazyb0?
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Pillar of the Community
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Even if it were a foreign planchet it would have had to be struck out of collar, and would most likely show some other evidence of that. I am voting Texas Cent. |
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Interesting find  |
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It shows fully formed rims and the details such as LIBERTY go all the way to the rim. It is a Texas Cent. The only other way this coin would be possible is if the dies were larger, and that doesn't happen. EDIT: Some areas of the reverse are flattened out and Lincoln's profile is stretched. All pointing towards a Texas Cent made by pressing a cent between two thick pieces of leather. Edited by cwb
01/23/2018 9:20 pm
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Quote: It is a Texas Cent. Can ya help me out with that? I know it ain't normal BUT how do they do that? |
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"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Posted 01/23/2018 6:26 pm
with moxking I think we made Foreign coins back then.
