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Paper Thin Cent

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 Posted 05/20/2011  4:29 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Double Mint to your friends list
Unfortunately I dont have a scale. Ill take a picture of the edge after I'm done golfing. I got to golf in the league tonight.
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 Posted 05/20/2011  5:19 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add John1 to your friends list
Could be a split planchet http://lincolncentresource.com/Erro...lanchet.html or a rolled thin planchet.
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 Posted 05/20/2011  6:28 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Indian1 to your friends list
It could not be split as both obv. and rev. are plainly sruck
and visible. If it is indeed super thin it would most likely
have to be an error on the stock roll that was then punched
for the blanks. Then in turn made into a planchet and then
the coin. Shows no evidence of PMD causing the thinness if indeed it is very thin. It could be called a planchet error
but then it could be called a stock error or blank error. Adding the proper description for either or ?
Surprising how the roll of stock would of gotten past Q.C.
in the first place but ? But then I may be wrong. I was wrong
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 Posted 05/21/2011  10:29 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Conder101 to your friends list
It doesn't LOOK paper thin. If it actually is very thin then it HAS to be an acid soak because it is too well struck to actually be struck on a planchet that started out very thin.
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 Posted 05/21/2011  4:41 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coop to your friends list
Smashing down the rims can make the coin appear thinner. The rims keep the coin from wearing off the devices as fast. If the setup make the rim taller, then it would appear to ge a thicker planchet, when it really isn't thicker, just the rim is taller. The weight would be the same for a flattened rim or a rim that is taller. The planchet weight remains the same unless the planchet had split or the stock material was rolled thin, then it would be lighter.
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 Posted 05/21/2011  7:46 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Double Mint to your friends list
Thats why I'm waiting for a scale before I say anything else about this coin.
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 Posted 05/21/2011  11:01 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add amassey08873 to your friends list
Is their a date over date. On my screen I see another 8 between the 9 & 8. Slightly tilted 12:30 to 6:30. I also can kinda make out another 1 and 9 tilted in same fashion. IDK. Does anyone else see it.
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 Posted 06/09/2011  10:05 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add engman3 to your friends list
I also have a thin cent that I just discovered in my grandfather's coin collection. It is a 1956. It looks like the rims are gone, but it is more than that. I'll post pictures shortly.
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 Posted 06/09/2011  10:22 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add engman3 to your friends list
I guess it is a 1958, not a 1956. Here are a couple of photos along side a regular wheat.

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 Posted 06/09/2011  10:26 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coop to your friends list
engman3's coin is a acid dipped coin. I've found several of these through the years:
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 Posted 06/10/2011  12:32 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add engman3 to your friends list
Thanks coop! There is lots of interesting stuff in here. I was pretty excited to see the 1914-D until I took a photo and got a really good look at it. I'll let you be the judge on this one.

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 Posted 06/10/2011  12:40 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add VisigothKing to your friends list
Ok, who gave Mr. Lincoln acid?
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 Posted 06/10/2011  12:49 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Peaceman to your friends list
My boy in H.S brought home a cent thinner than paper about a month ago. They took a Zinc cent,
drilled a small hold in the side on the rim and dropped in in some sort of liquid (maybe acid),
All of the zinc was removed from the cent and left just the copper coating. It was so light, you
could blow it off your palm with hardly any force.... coolest thing....
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 Posted 06/10/2011  01:36 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coop to your friends list
I've got an image of a 19 14-D:
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 Posted 06/10/2011  7:56 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add yotie to your friends list
that had to be a heart breaker Engman3
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