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Zimmy Valued Member United States 460 Posts	Posted 04/12/2013 9:10 pm Can anyone shed some light on this coin? It's a large cent with plenty of wear between 1816-1839. It looks like a possible but doubtful struck from a smaller and defective planchet. Weight is 89.4 grains or 5.8 grams. The only smaller planchets possible for the time span is a Half Cent planchet but they would be larger and heavier. Are there any other possibilities or is this just post mint damage? Thanks, Report this Post to the Staff

vermontensium Moderator United States 16679 Posts	Posted 04/12/2013 9:59 pm What's the diameter? I must say, this is interesting! swcoin.ecrater.com Report this Post to the Staff
noahs-numismatics Pillar of the Community Canada 3167 Posts	Posted 04/12/2013 10:12 pm Hmmm... weird... Report this Post to the Staff
Zimmy Valued Member United States 460 Posts	Posted 04/12/2013 10:48 pm The coin is 5/64 inch (.08 inch) thick or slightly over 2 MM. The width is 54/64 inch (.84 inch) wide at widest point or about 21.4 MM. The defective area looks very much authentic and would seem hard to duplicate. The coin is pretty even all around except for the defect area that is a little smaller in diameter. Coins looks copper. Report this Post to the Staff
vermontensium Moderator United States 16679 Posts	Posted 04/12/2013 10:53 pm It's definitely copper and the weight and diameter nearly matches that of a Half Cent . I would send this to ANACS. swcoin.ecrater.com Report this Post to the Staff
ThisIsFun Pillar of the Community United States 2480 Posts	Posted 04/13/2013 04:02 am Report this Post to the Staff
Conder101 Bedrock of the Community United States 17884 Posts	Posted 04/13/2013 11:17 am Weight is close to that of a Half Cent but the thickness and diameter are probably too far off. Diameter is over 2 mm too small and even with the missing portion of the planchet it is five grains heavy. So if the planchet didn't have the hole it would be a lot heavier than a Half Cent. Something else that looks odd. it looks like it may have beaded hair cords which would put it as 1837 to 39. But all of the beaded hair cord varieties come with the point of the leaf below the CENTER of the last A in AMERICA. (I could be wrong about the hair cords being beaded.) Edited by Conder101 04/13/2013 11:18 am Report this Post to the Staff
philadelphian Pillar of the Community United States 3253 Posts	Posted 04/13/2013 12:14 pm With that degree of deformation, I don't know if you can say what the leaf point is supposed to be below. Report this Post to the Staff
noahs-numismatics Pillar of the Community Canada 3167 Posts	Posted 04/13/2013 1:20 pm First thing I was going to say when I saw it was crazy PMD, but now I don't know... Report this Post to the Staff
Conder101 Bedrock of the Community United States 17884 Posts	Posted 04/14/2013 04:25 am No there is really no deformation in that area, and even it there was it wouldn't be able to move that leaf point from below the center of the A to below the center of the left foot. The leaf and the A are well formed, the end of the leaf has not been clipped off and there is just no visible damage in that area. I'm more likely to be wrong about the beaded hair cord than I am the position of the leaf point. Report this Post to the Staff
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