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There was talk about this 63 penny on previous topic, If I remember correctly it's struck on a sherrit mint foreign planchet.
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The weight of the cent came in at 3.23 grams. It was also not magnetic. I know some of you might cringe but I cut it anyway. Normally I would not do something as such but it was really bugging me as it just did not seem right. There again maybe I would, as I did already. Plated? Yes I would suspect it is, but not zinc electro plating. It is solder and flux. That is why it looks heated up and burnt on the other side.  |
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It might be ilegal to do that to a coin I would check the law first
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100% agree with Alan, defacing legal tender is against the law, since Canadian banks (and stores) still accept them as legal tender you willingly and knowingly cut a perfectly spendable penny. Not trying to give you a hard time but, if it was only solder and flux a torch for a few seconds would have easily removed the plating and your penny would still be a penny, but now no bank or store will take it. Posting it willingly online was probably not a good idea either...
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I think that's pretty cool; never seen a penny cut in half like that!
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I dunno about Canada, but in the States it's only illegal to deface with the intent to defraud or alter for a profit.
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Taken from mint.ca website and can be found on a quick google search "The Currency Act and The Canadian Criminal Code clearly state that no person shall melt down, break up or use otherwise than as currency any coin that is legal tender in Canada" even though it is only a penny, you are defacing legal tender with a portrait of the queen on it. It is cool to see the inside of a penny but to what extent is it/was it really worth. I don't know what kind of trouble you could get into (if any) but given the statements I seen regarding this on the government websites I wouldn't be one to try and find out. Finding and discovering modern Canadian doubled die varieties since 2018. 2023 Recent Publications: Modern Canadian Doubled Die Varieties - First Edition PDF & Paperback https://www.mcddv.ca (website currently down for maintenance as of 08/01/2024) |
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The Canadian government has bigger fish to fry, than investigating people sawing old coins in half... otherwise, a good handful of grade 11 chemistry teachers would all be in trouble (electroplating copper/bronze coins with zinc comes to mind).
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I know some of you might cringe but I cut it anyway. I too have done the same. Experience is the best teacher. "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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I suppose they do have much bigger fish to fry, I think the intent of the law was really to stop people from clipping gold and silver coins. I'm guilty too, I smooshed a penny with a hammer ha!
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Oh well, if the government wants to send the penny police after me for cutting it, so be it. I will deal with it, if and when it happens.
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Dredge, I wouldn't worry too much about it I was just pointing out information I had read in case you didn't know is all. Like the others said they most likely have bigger fish to fry and you did it mainly out of curiosity. When I was younger I drilled a hole in a coin once for a necklace because I was young and didn't know anything (wasn't collecting at that point and thought it would be cool) but i'd personally never do it again or cut a coin only because I would be scared that it would have been something of value and cutting it would totally render it worthless. You guy's got way more courage than I do haha but I'm glad your mind is at ease knowing it was just plated.
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As a kid I must have destroyed thousands of pennies on the train tracks and or the street car tracks. Send the cops to get me.  Edited by darryldarryl
01/04/2020 2:57 pm
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