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New Member
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Edited by Brisket
04/29/2021 3:53 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Please, one coin per thread. Difficult at best to address multiple coins. Help us to help you.   to the CCF!  |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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The 1995 penny not zinc coated steel like the issue of WW2 Zinc coated zinc?  The possibility remains that it maybe? a normal Zincoln, but with an electroplated zinc coating done in a simple high school lab experiment, but I really don't think so. |
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When I first found the coin in my change I assumed someone had "stripped" the penny with something, but I decided against that because, from what I have read, that process would usually damage the coin. I also considered that it was coated with something, but the hair on Lincoln and the detail on the Memorial on the back are very sharp, which I would think would not be the case if it had been coated after being stamped. I assume somebody tossed an uncoated blank in the mix and it made it out of the mint, but I am just spit-balling.
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@brisk, first welcome to CCF. Second, can you please let us know if this piece is attracted to a magnet? Thx.
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
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United States
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. Weight and diameter please. John1  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2003 Posts |
I have one like this too but the folks on here seem to be of the opinion that it is a Texas Cent (squeezed between leather and the plating pops off). That's why people are asking for weight, diameter and thickness. |
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United States
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MisterT.. you beat me out. I was going to post that
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New Member
United States
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I just checked the coin and it is not magnetic. The only scale I have is a kitchen scale so it is imprecise, to say the least. When I weighed a few wheat cents they consistently weighed at 3 grams. When I weighed this 1995 penny it weighed 2 grams all but one time and weighed 3 grams once. When I weighed a "normal" penny from 1989 it was evenly split between 2 and 3 grams. The scale I was using only used whole numbers, so the weights I came up with are likely rounded up or down by the scale, so there is probably not much that can be learned by that.
Similarly, I do not have any tools that can measure the width or thickness down to the small increments that would be required to find such a small difference in size. The 1995 and 1989 coins appear to be the same size when looking at them.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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A more precise weight would be good, but it sounds like it's roughly consistent with the expected 2.5 g. Even if you can't measure the diameter, can you compare it to a normal coin? Even if it's just slightly wider, that could mean it's a "Texas cent."
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Valued Member
United States
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If you sit in under another cent, does it appear to be bigger? Sometimes it's really obvious when you do that.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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So when weighting coins (cents) with a kitchen scale, why not stack up 12 or 14 post 1983 cents, then replace the top cent with the one in question...see if that gets you a different reading...only a suggestion, haven't had the need to do this, but what the heck...nothing to lose
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04/29/2021 01:08 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Dearborn, I believe it was you who gave me that education so in fact you do deserve the credit for that explanation.
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New Member
United States
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IsThisAnything- When I place one coin on top of the other there is no distinguishable difference in size. Both coins hide perfectly under each other, so they appear to be the same size.
I tried stacking the coins as Greasy Fingers suggested and the results were inconclusive. The scale I am using is not sensitive enough to pick up the slight differences in weight.
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United States
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can you post up a picture of the coin in question again, trying to get rid of all that glare that is washing out the image?
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Dearborn, I believe it was you who gave me that education so in fact you do deserve the credit for that explanation. Thank you for the credit, but I think that we both can take credit for it, plus I think it was Coop that taught me, so I think it was a collaboration of folks here that help to get the answers we all seek. Edited by Dearborn
04/29/2021 2:44 pm
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