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Valued Member
Trinidad And Tobago
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1953 penny light in weight. This penny is > 5% lighter that the normal weight of 3.11 grams, and much lighter than its' expected tolerance. Any suggestions ?    |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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 Still close to tolerance. |
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 Trinidad And Tobago
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Moderator
 United States
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Well 3.11 g minus 0.12 g is 2.99 g and you are measuring 2.94. Could there be 0.05 g of wear? Alternatively, how certain are you that your scale is within calibration? Either way, this one seems to be at the very low end of mint-acceptable.
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Valued Member
Trinidad And Tobago
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100 % sure that the scale is perfectly calibrated. May be ware but still below tolerance, and the other coins with the same identical ware that I have are still within the expected tolerance rage. Not a normal penny in that sense. It is light.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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You show your scale calibrated with a 50g weight. While it could be ok, it might still not handle much lower weights with accuracy. I suggest you grab a few pre-82 cents (as new as possible) and see if you can consistently register 3.11g with them. Just to be sure your scale is reading lower weights well.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Light planchets show up every so often. Not a big deal, I think.  |
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Valued Member
Trinidad And Tobago
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Merclover I hope you under stand what this new photo implies ? If not then it is not my problem. Coinfrog if the coin was within tolerance then you would have made that an issue to prove that it is not different to most. Now that it is below, your comment is "No big thing". The point is while it may not be very valuable you guys must have the love and humility to admit when someone's coin is different from the norm. The tolerance given by the Mint is a guide to determine the norm. Unfortunately this group is becoming more of a "Wet Blanket" group than a group of encouragement and love for the hobby.  Edited by ikuna
06/03/2021 7:28 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Well copper is not as valuable as gold. So only gold is what really counts as weight value for coins. Usually an under weight coin is noticed by weakness of the strike. Then we examine them. But just random weighing seems pointless. (unless you are looking for 1983 copper cents)
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Valued Member
Trinidad And Tobago
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Coop
If you look at the word "ONE" on the reverse you would notice a weaken strike on the "O" and around that vicinity.
I have another 1953 with much more lightness there and the front bust but it was posted a long time ago and concluded right here to be a Thin Planchette.
Try to do more observing.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Ease up, man. It's not unusual, these are seen frequently. Good work on your part, but no premium here.  Edited by Coinfrog
06/03/2021 8:38 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Many of the wheat cents have that same weakness, just like the STAT area on the reverses of the Memorial cents. It is that the obverse having to move so much metal on the bust, sometimes leaves weakness on these areas when the planchet is a little short of metal. When the full weight is present, then the weakness of these areas are normal.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Usually coins in this weight range, and date range, are tapered planchets. But they show weakness in one area of the coin and so are noticeable visually. This coin shows no weakness, so while it is light and might be technically a rolled thin planchet, it is so close to normal and shows no strike effect that it is unlikely to generate interest. Error coins tend to live and die by eye appeal. It's like finding a 1mm lamination peel, sure it's an error coin, but it's not going to get most folks very excited. But an error coin it is, and so quite fine to keep it and label it as such. What is collectible is up to the collector, not anyone else, so all is good.
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Valued Member
Trinidad And Tobago
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Cool. I don't depend on this for a living. I do get happy when I discover an error regardless of how insignificant. I have more valuable errors which were recognized right here on coincommunity. An error is an error even when it may be more popular that others. All I expect is to call an error when it is. My coin was not PMD or MD or other non- errors and so I expect here in a group that deals with various coins, errors and varieties to call it as it is. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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What might also be good to keep in mind though is that while its good to see someone really enjoying finding any error:
We have a lot of people coming here daily hoping they have fund something of great interest and worth...and we have the displeasure of telling them they have not won the lottery.
So when something of no interest or extra value (to the majority of collectors) is shown in a post, the members here simply post answers like they do on many, many other posts (trying to help the most commonly asked question of, "what is it worth?") and say the coin is not a "big deal."
This is not being mean or negative. Its just being honest.
No one, when they post a coin they are excited about likes to hear their treasure is actually something spendable. So it is easy to see how people can automatically think a short answer is being negative.
I have been here since 2011 and personally have never known Coinfrog to be negative..especially when answering questions trying to help people know what they have.
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Valued Member
Trinidad And Tobago
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Cool. I understand that valuable coins are rare, however the little errors I apricate as I continue to look forward to more significant ones in the future.
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