First Time Post 2007 Penny

After reading other comments, I think it is a damaged coin with some zinc rot that has been replated for whatever reason. That explains the "delamination" look of the reverse area around CENT, which looked odd to me at first. While it isn't worth any more than a cent, I would keep it.

Nope, don't mind at all, Try and get an edge on pic if you can as well, preferably at the area nearest the NT please.

Done some redneckafied photos using my phone and a loop.
to me, it looks like images possibly from another coin that has been pressed to it.

See some lines out from his face along the rim?





I sorry, not gonna beat this horse anymore. Guess it is what it is.
I did look at a few YouTube videos of coins being made and they do go thru some more processing besides the stamping process. Could have gotten hung up while being sorted and counted. Never could find any exposed zinc.

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After studying the new photos, I have come to the same conclusions as a few others. This coin has definitely been manipulated after minting, but post mint. The damage looks to have been orchestrated to fool us to in least two parts. Perhaps a vise job coin, or crushed somehow against a second coin in the first part. I think it was T-BOP that first noticed no zinc, and is an important clue leading us to the second part. Plating copper is extremely easy and it involves mixing distilled water 5:1 with muriatic acid (available at any hardware store).

Plating copper over copper would hide the zinc exposed in part one, and (nearly) fools us into thinking this coin is some super rare/special piece, when in fact, just like the many vise jobs we see here, it's only meant to deceive.


Like Columbo waiting for the "nail in the coffin" clue, this was it. "Never could find any exposed zinc."


I noticed JimmyD and spruett001 were the first to mention this possibility, I bow to that expertise!

I thought about the same thing Hallor Bill. I guess it could be possible. I'll I know is that I got this penny back in 2007 in some pocket change along with other new pennies. I personally don't see why someone would take a brand new minted penny and go to the trouble of jacking it up, plating and sticking right back in to circulation. Even if they did, I would think it would have been in more detail (visible over stamp of another coin) beside just being like it is.

I'm am NOT an expert on coins. Heck, I couldn't even tell you most of the key dates of most collections. I just know in my mind that this one was damage at the mint.

Thank y'all,
Skittypop

Would someone care to translate this for me, please?

Skittypop
if you learned the minting process you would realize that this is impossible for
that to have happened during the striking of the coin.
The fact that part of the rims are missing should be enough to tell you that.