1948 Lincoln Wheat Cent - 1.89g - Coin Community Forum

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tropicalbats Pillar of the Community United States 6116 Posts	Posted 06/01/2019 11:45 pm I see a lot of acid soaked Lincolns. Not sure why this is or was a thing but there are lots of them out there. This one caught my attention as a bit different. Color is pretty accurate for a real surface, and there are carbon spots similar to those typically found on uncirculated coins. Center is thicker than edges and coin rocks slightly. The banding is almost certainly from the planchet texture and not abrasion given the matching angles between front and back and much of it is raised not incuse. Anyway, it looks like an acid wash that brought out the planchet texture, but at 1.89g and 19.0mm diameter it honestly looks like quite a good coin in hand with full cheeckbone visible and all that, just much too thin and with loss of rim. 1948 Lincoln Wheat cent - 1.89g seems like acid soak Report this Post to the Staff

GrapeCollects Pillar of the Community United States 8938 Posts	Posted 06/01/2019 11:47 pm Yep! You can tell easily because the rims are gone! Report this Post to the Staff
Errers and Varietys Bedrock of the Community United States 74493 Posts	Posted 06/01/2019 11:59 pm Yep, it was definitely dipped in acid. Errers and Varietys. Report this Post to the Staff
John1 Moderator United States 56855 Posts	Posted 06/02/2019 04:30 am Report this Post to the Staff
Petespockets55 Pillar of the Community United States 5780 Posts	Posted 06/02/2019 06:10 am I see the effects of the acid dipping you're talking about. What does the edge of the coin look like? Are there scratches perpendicular to the face or parallel? I've heard that people use to grind down cents to get the same diameter as a dime for vending machines. EDIT: This one makes me wonder when the vending machines started taking the weight of the coins into account instead of just the diameter, Since a Rosie weighs 2.5 grams. Words of encouragement are one of the major food groups. We need to consume them regularly to thrive and grow. Edited by Petespockets55 06/02/2019 06:30 am Report this Post to the Staff
tropicalbats Pillar of the Community United States 6116 Posts	Posted 06/02/2019 11:18 am When I looked at the edge I found no perpendicular marks at all. Nor any signs of grinding. There is, however, a single very light ridge roughly in the middle that runs most of the way around the coin in parallel. The edge looks reasonably like a normal coin edge. Report this Post to the Staff
1962penny Valued Member United States 173 Posts	Posted 06/02/2019 12:59 pm interesting looking coin! Report this Post to the Staff
coop Bedrock of the Community United States 62064 Posts	Posted 06/02/2019 7:17 pm The acid eats evenly as long as the coin is in the acid. On the edges, it eats the two surfaces and the edge. So that is why the edges are affected differently: There was a reason they did that back in the early day. Read above. Report this Post to the Staff
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