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Valued Member
United States
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Hello, first time poster. Ive been out of the coin collecting game for some time and recently found this coin in a bank roll. Never seen anything like it. What is everyones thought. Im glad to be here and learning alot reading the forum    |
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Moderator
 United States
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@ski, first welcome to CCF. We are glad to have you joining us here. That looks like a globule of solidified braze—in other words, metal added to this coin after it left the mint. If you can, please post the weight so that we can see how much heavier this cent has become. Thx.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Valued Member
 United States
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I feel a scale needs to be my next Amazon purchase. My food scale doesn't go low enough. Will keep you posted |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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First thought is solder, second thought is no way this was/could fit in a standard roll.  to the CFF!  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Looks like copper solder. (back then they had copper solder for fixing copper roof material. The weight will be over 3.11 grams. Altered coin.
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United States
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Looks like copper solder.  with Coop that this is copper that was melted onto this coin. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'm thinking a glancing blow from target practice. Maybe a pump-action bb gun (rifle) was used. Reverse side looks incused to me.....  Odd location for a jewelry mount. |
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United States
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Valued Member
United States
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So it ended up weighing exactly 3.0 grams.
The scale goes out to the 100 decimal point, so its not an issues with the scale, and I tested other pennies that were weighted correctly.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Well coin wear will lighten a coin removing some of the mint devices on the coin. The Add on wasn't enough to make it too heavy.
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Valued Member
United States
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Yah, I appreciate all the responses
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Posted 08/13/2021 1:25 pm
