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I have seen some of these posted on this site but had to dig mine out before I read up on these. Any info would be greatly appreciated. My buddy had this in his possession from when his father passed. He knows I dabble with coins and gave it to me. Please fill me in on these shell type coins.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Lesson 1: It's a CENT, not a penny.
On the other hand the "muggles" call it a penny in the US.
That's a hang over from when we were a British colony.
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John1 the link did not work but I was able to use the search option with that title to find. Thanks for the info and the schooling!
kanga "lesson 1" I learned it was not a "penny" nor a "cent".
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Pillar of the Community
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If it's not a penny or a cent...then what is it ?
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Pillar of the Community
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What it is, is worth less than a year ago.
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Bedrock of the Community
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You could put a dime in the opened space where the obverse was. Then you could use it for a magic trick to change a cent into a dime. (just flip it over inside your covered hand)
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Rest in Peace
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Or, possibly, a melting Zincoln.
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Is this what we would call a half-penny? (If we were still British?)
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Bedrock of the Community
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Half pennies look like this:  It couldn't be a melting zincoln. It is too precise to be that. It was altered on a lathe in a machine shop. |
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Coop is right - these were commonly found in magic stores when I was a kid (yes, there were magic stores once!). You would show the cent, cup it upside down in one palm in your joined hands, and the dime would fall into the other palm to hold up. Still a good trick!
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