1995 Penny W/ No Copper Coating

I have one like this too but the folks on here seem to be of the opinion that it is a Texas Cent (squeezed between leather and the plating pops off). That's why people are asking for weight, diameter and thickness.

I just checked the coin and it is not magnetic. The only scale I have is a kitchen scale so it is imprecise, to say the least. When I weighed a few wheat cents they consistently weighed at 3 grams. When I weighed this 1995 penny it weighed 2 grams all but one time and weighed 3 grams once. When I weighed a "normal" penny from 1989 it was evenly split between 2 and 3 grams. The scale I was using only used whole numbers, so the weights I came up with are likely rounded up or down by the scale, so there is probably not much that can be learned by that.

Similarly, I do not have any tools that can measure the width or thickness down to the small increments that would be required to find such a small difference in size. The 1995 and 1989 coins appear to be the same size when looking at them.

If you sit in under another cent, does it appear to be bigger? Sometimes it's really obvious when you do that.

Dearborn, I believe it was you who gave me that education so in fact you do deserve the credit for that explanation.

can you post up a picture of the coin in question again, trying to get rid of all that glare that is washing out the image?

to the Community!

I'm no expert!!! Could it be a pattern coin to evaluate the design? I see a difference in the ear, but to much glare to see the rest. I'm just curiouse about that. I remember reading something about this.

Dearborn- The pictures of the reverse have a brownish tint because of the filters I used to reduce the glare, which is why both the formica and the coin have that tint. The formica is blue, like in the picture I posted of the front of the coin. The fourth picture with the silver colored front of the coin and the blue formica is the actual color.