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New Member
United States
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I found this Penny a few years ago working at a store. I have been collecting error coins for quite sometime. It's a 1960 Penny, no mint, silver, it weighs 2.4 grams and I haven't seen anything like it ever nor can I find any info about it. There are no coin experts in my area either so I'm at a loss. It's not been dipped, it has a copper interior and ridges in the rim like a dime, it's not magnetic either. A jeweler did say it was silver for sure. Ummm, I'm thinking it was struck on a dime planchet. Any help would be great.    Edited by Kygirl
01/21/2019 02:33 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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 It doesn't appear to be struck on a dime planchet. Even if it was, it couldn't have been a modern dime planchet as they didn't exist yet in 1960. It looks to be plated with something. However, I cannot explain why it weights 2.4 grams. A picture of the reverse would be nice! |
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New Member
 United States
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I have tried and tried to upload the reverse and it refused to let me... Finally I've got it... Thanks for your help and knowledge so much. |
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New Member
United States
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And thanks I had no clue about those not existing in 1960. I was a cashier at a gas station and a guy paid for his purchase thinking it was a dime, so I immediately swooped it up. It wasnt like anything I'd ever seen I just don't have a clue how, why, what ect...
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Nickel plated in a high school lab. experiment.
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 United States
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Not struck on a dime planchet. Probably plated and something has abraded the edge allowing the copper to show through. Can't explain the low weight though. Too heavy to have been a clad dime planchet even if it had existed then, to light to be a regular cent planchet. Oddly it IS exactly right for the weight of a cent planchet punched from clad dime strip.
Someone DID turn up a nickel struck on a clad dime planchet dated several years before the clad dimes were produced, and it was slabbed by PCGS I believe. I have to wonder it this might be something similar. An experimental piece?
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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The weight is indeed puzzling, especially since it doesn't seem to be that worn. Coincidental plating of an underweight planchet? to the CCF! |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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The way this discussion has gone so far, suggests to me that the weight has to be more accurately determined
Stated at 2.4 grams, but that now needs to be confirmed to three decimal places.
Exact diameter also needs to be known, accurate to two decimal places.
After weight and diameter more accurately known, and with further discussion in this thread, and with still no resolution,
testing with XRF would be indicated.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I think the OP should let us know what city/state they are in and perhaps an expert could meet up at a local show or maybe a coin club?
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