Blank Lincoln Shield Cent, Found In A Roll Today

@Yellzaboff, it is a little hard to tell from your pics, but is this coin still round and of the same overall dimensions (diameter and thickness) as a regular US cent?

Ok well I was trying to understand if someone has just flattened out this coin, but if so then it would most likely be thinner and larger in diameter. This would be a pretty extreme example of a grease-filled die, but I suppose that is a possible explanation. I'd like to hear what others say as I'm not sure on this one.

Nope, not a blank. It's Post Strike Damage (happened after it left the U.S. Mint). It was probably placed on a train track and got hit by an oncoming train, since it's oval in shape.

I also wonder too. Maybe the sorter was somehow able to recognize that it was a LSC somehow.

It weighs 2.45g

I totally agree with you on this, Coop -- and they're all I've been searching the last few months.. There's just one smalll problem:

I'm sadly finding out 1973 is pretty much the furthest year back I can fairly reliably purchase as OBW.. Get to 1972 and things really begin getting iffy.. I've purchased '59 - '72 mem rolls from highly respected dealers who've sworn up n down to me I'd be getting OBWs, yet when they arrived it was easy to see they had an end re-tightened, which means they'd been opened, which further means they were at least once searched.. There's usually other indicators (on the coins) as well, generally marks that only occur from handling/rubbing, "out of order toning" and other reveals.. Get to '58?, prepare to pay..! Those OBWs of '58s he's willing to "let you have" for $10 each..? Har har..

I never notify them, because they already know they burnt me and know I know they burnt me.. I simply never do business with them again, because if they're gonna burn me on a buck-fifty worth of pennies what're they capable of doing when it comes to some serious ching for a serious collectable..? What makes their actions doubly weird is they know I will purchase select once-searched rolls no problem.. So why lose a customer over a few dollars worth of something it isn't..? Totally beyond my way of thinking..

So anyhowww.. Yeah, I've been going through a lot of once-searched rolls of OBW coppers lately.. Zincolns are still for the most part for real.. '73 - '82s are more of a coin-toss than I would have expected, especially considering how little that's already known about worth finding among them.. But that's ok, since I / we are looking for heretofor unknowns..

Swamp

Coop, I got the roll from the bank, not a person or store.. The roll it was in cant be opened then closed back.. Not saying a person didnt do it but it obviously had to go through a sorter to end up in this roll..