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Walker4 Valued Member United States 74 Posts	Posted 04/15/2008 3:41 pm I bought 20 rolls of wheat cents today, and while looking thru them, I found these. My scans aren't the greatest, but the one penny looks like the middle was cut out, and flipped upside down? It's fits very tight, and I doesn't look like it was beat in there. I'm not sure if some one did this, or if this is possibly an error coin. The other one is missing the rim around the edge. Again not sure about. I also found a 1909, but it's so grimmy, it's hard to read. Anybody have any advice? Image: penny2.jpg 9.83 KB Image: penny3.jpg 9.82 KB Sorry, after posting this, I realized that there was an error coin forum. Probably should have posted there. Edited by Walker4 04/15/2008 5:51 pm Report this Post to the Staff

Becky Pillar of the Community United States 954 Posts	Posted 04/15/2008 8:45 pm The first one is PMD(post mint damage) I don't know why it was done, but I have a nickel just like it. Is the other one the size of a dime? When I was a kid if you rubbed a penny on the sidewalk and ground it down to the size of a dime, you could buy a pop with it. Report this Post to the Staff
Walker4 Valued Member United States 74 Posts	Posted 04/15/2008 9:14 pm Thanks for the advice, I'm not sure why anyone would do this either, or how they did it? They had to use a very sharp, extremely thin punch. Somebody must have been very bored. As far as the rim less one goes, that's a pretty good story, and very likely possibility, given the age of the coin. I also did the unthinkable, I cleaned the 1909. Curiosity got the best of me. I really couldn't even tell if it was a 1909 for sure, mush less an "S" mint, or VDB. Turns out it was a 1909, but no "S", and no VDB. So I didn't ruin anything that valuable. Still one of the oldest coin's I ever found. Report this Post to the Staff
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