Posible Wheat Penny On Dime Planchet

This one is post-strike damage. If it were struck on a dime planchet, the coin would be made of silver, have a stronger, clearer impression of the design, and would not have that large rim.

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Indeed, Dryer Coin. The thickness of the rim gives it away.

There is silver showing when you look at the edge, Unfortunatly it did not photograph well enough as it is such a thin line of silver. it almost looks like copper over silver with the edges from the excess size of the copper over silver. If it is a Dryer Coin would it bend over on both sides equally? Thanks everyone!

the thick rim says its PMD instead of any type of error. I am not sure if it was spooned or it spent some time in a dryer but either way it is not a Lincoln Cent on a dime planchet

Today, it is popular to further hammer the coin into a ring. Most I've seen were made from Walkers. Check this out:

Ok I finally had to measure and weigh the coin...... The width is ever so slightly wider then a dime. Please see the last picture that shows the flat rim all around the edge. If I measure inside the rim it is equal to a dime. The thickness measure inside the rim also equals a dime. The weight is .oo2 grams heavier then a dime, but less than a penny. This measuremnts are as close as I can get with electronic caliper and electronic digital gram scale.

For future reference I have been working with a few U.S. and World error collectors on confirming off-metal compositions in their collections. See my work recently with Mike Diamond of Coin World (Collector's Clearinghouse) on the 1941 "brassy" slightly overweight Lincoln Cent and confirming its not of a Peruvian planchet stock. There are probably other mis-classifications in this arena with slabbed and non-slabbed pieces from my observations as I also collect off-metal errors both U.S. and World. See next weeks Coin World's Collector Clearinghouse article (Week of: 10/15/2012) on pages 82-83 on this piece andsome others Lincoln off-metals.

On this specimen its an obvious bang around the rim job (i.e., upset rim) or post-mint damage. In colonial coins particularly with the imported English/Irish contemporary counterfeit halfpence (1/2d) from the 1700's of a struck (not cast) nature this was actually done during the striking event occasionally by the counterfeiter to simulate wear so they would pass easier into the marketplace as real 1/2d. Actually I never seen a 18thC farthing with this effect. Anyway - But of course this is not the case with U.S. 20th/21stC coinage as in this specimen - EVER.

John Lorenzo
United States

ColonialJohn and jarubla - Thank you for looking at my coin and ColonialJohn thak you for the information. If nothing else I am lrearning from every response. ColonialJohn, your last sentence is throwing me off just a bit; "But of course this is not the case with U.S. 20th/21stC coinage as in this specimen - EVER." Are you saying, it's a counterfit or just a PMD coin.
Thanks again!!