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Valued Member
United States
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I have a 1919 S Wheat penny that I found last week. It looks a bit weird to me. First of all it has very wide rims on the obv and rev side and also the color is a bit off ..it looks like a different planchette for a different penny. Well my camara is off and I'm sorry this is the best pics I can send you right now and I hope you can see the key points that I'm referencing.   *** Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum. *** |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1003 Posts |
You will need better pictures.
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Valued Member
 United States
134 Posts |
Yeah I guessed that one ' thanks anyway
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Moderator
 United States
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You might try backing away from the cent a little bit. Give your camera a chance to focus. The pictures may be a little smaller, but they might be more in focus. When you get other pictures, post them in this thread.  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Try pics without the coi in the plastic.
Feel free to call me Will.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
8515 Posts |
On the plus side, they would make great ebay pics ! Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Quote:On the plus side, they would make great ebay pics !  Compared to other's I have seen, you are correct, sir! |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
19931 Posts |
Welcome to CC! I'll take a stab even with blurry pictures. It appears to be what we call a " Dryer Coin", i.e. it spent time getting tumbled around. This tends to fold the rims inward making them fairly thick. We see about one of these a month in the forums....search " Dryer Coin" and you might just see something similar to your coin. |
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Moderator
United States
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It may be a Dryer Coin, or it almost looks like the coin was removed from a bezel or encasement and the edge had been compressed.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Wide rims are normal on the pre-1936 wheat cents that I've seen. The coin also looks slightly off-center to the left a little bit, giving the right side a wider rim. The rim gets wider as the coin gets flatter in circulation, too.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Nice Fuzzy, that's definitely another good theory!
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Valued Member
United States
142 Posts |
Looks like a normal early Wheat cent showing circulation. |
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Valued Member
United States
134 Posts |
Thank you all for your feed back' I definetly appreciate it and the dryer thing could be feasibility to that thanks again.
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Moderator
United States
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Here is a thread of many Dryer Coins in various states of coin damage |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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As already noted there are many of the older Cents with larger than normal rims. I used to collect as many as I found but then realized it is rather normal Don't now why but larger than so called normal rims is rather normal.
Of course the amount of overage is another story.
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United States
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Did you set your camera to micro setting? The little flower icon. John1  |
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