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Pillar of the Community
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Some machinist was having a quiet day,.. and pressed a cent into a slice of "turned or machined" piece of copper pipe while playing with a lathe. IMHO..
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Some machinist was having a quiet day, Sounds good to me. |
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Pillar of the Community
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 That is cool.  . An instant Piedfort.  "We are poor little lambs...who have lost our way...Baa...Baa...Baa"
In memory of those members who left us too soon...
In memory of Tootallious March 31, 1964 - April 15, 2020
In memory of crazyb0 July 27 2020. RIP.
In memory of T-BOP Oct. 12, 1949 - Jan. 19, 2024
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New Member
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It would have to be two pennies for the thickness, but this could make sense. I figured it wasn't something done at the mint, but wasn't quite sure what I was looking at.
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Pillar of the Community
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How does the orientation look?
"We are poor little lambs...who have lost our way...Baa...Baa...Baa"
In memory of those members who left us too soon...
In memory of Tootallious March 31, 1964 - April 15, 2020
In memory of crazyb0 July 27 2020. RIP.
In memory of T-BOP Oct. 12, 1949 - Jan. 19, 2024
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Orientation is off and is what made me think it's two pennies pressed into a copper sleeve to be honest. I've looked at the piece under a loop and I can't see a definite gap between the coins and the sleeve if it is indeed a sleeve and pressed in coins. So if it was a machined piece and seeing as most of the coins I have come from my grandfather, the machinist had to have been fairly skilled for the timeframe.
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That's actually a pretty cool piece. I'd suggest it as a pocket piece, except you'd be buying 30 pairs of pants per year carrying that beast.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I have something very similar. I suspect made by the same person. I posted it once on the site but can't fine the string. I will dig it out and post a photo.
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Thanks for the post Smallcentguy! At least I know I'm not the only one with one of these things ;) .
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Does that turn out to be the same size as any other higher-value coin? I wonder it it was meant to fool a machine.
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Mine is very thick.....I don't think it is like any other north American or European coin that was issued at that time. Perhaps they were made as game pieces. It is odd to me that they were obviously scattered pretty broadly.
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Mine is about 4mm thick, not sure what they could have been for. And yes it's quite interesting that there is more than one of these. Could it be a fad of sorts like gold plating of pennies way back when?
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I don't have mine handy but around 4mm sounds right. About the thickness of Two Cent coins. It looks to me like these were all early 40s. |
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