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Copper In Preparation For Something But What?

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 Posted 04/24/2025  9:39 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add jdsstrat to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I found this handcut (or so it appears to have been) piece of copper in a box of odds and ends coins, tokens, souvenirs and such. It is very thin, about .5 mm. Any ideas what it might be? Or perhaps the better question is what someone might have been getting it ready for? (FYI: for scale, that's a 4x4 square inch piece of paper it's resting on.)




You'll notice a portion of it has been bent upward (or down depending...) As usual, thanks for all your feedback.
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Looks like a railroad cent, ran over by a train.
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 Posted 04/24/2025  10:25 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Errers and Varietys to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
. It sure looks like it.
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Looks like a railroad cent, ran over by a train.

It sure does!
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 Posted 04/25/2025  06:52 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jdsstrat to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Got it. Thanks!
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yep, my first thought as well (and from personal experience) a railroad cent.
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 Posted 04/25/2025  10:54 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Meemsz to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
You know what I thought when I first saw this looks like those coins you put into a machine and you turn the handle and it's suppose to give you an image of the them park your at like when you go to Knotts berry farm but in this case it didn't come out right
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