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Penny Printed On Dime?

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Penny-Printed-On-Dime?
Penny-Printed-On-Dime?
Penny-Printed-On-Dime?


weighs 2.10 grams
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to the CCF!

Your coin looks like a Dryer Coin. It's a normal copper platted zinc cent that got stuck inside the workings of a drum of a clothes dryer and tumbled until it was smoothed and part of the copper was wearing through.

It's just Post Mint Damage.
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Appears to be a Dryer Coin. PMD.
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thank you for the info!
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Meche719,
Just a FYI: coins are minted not printed. So called "paper money" is printed.
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Agree with all above. Nice example.
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no, not minted on a dime planchet - first clue would be that it is copper OVER a silvery color (the zinc core) Not the other way around (a copper core Under a CuNi top layer.)
This is a zinc coin that got badly abused and sanded and reduced in size. Way back when I was a wee bit of a lad - we did this to mimic a dime to get pop from old vending machines.
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That is creative Dearborn to get a soda. When soda machines sold bottled soda the necks faced outward towards customer, it was easy just to get a cup and use a bottle opener to pop the cap and fill your cup for free.
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Tsk, tsk!



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