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New Member
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 This is a penny on a nickel planchet it weighs 4.3 grams and comes up a a nickel on my metal detector
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Moderator
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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No
Wouldn't fit in the coining chamber - a cent is 0.750 in. /19.05 mm and a nickel is 0.835 in. / 21.21 mm
Looks like plating flaking off.
Worthless. Well, still face value.
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Australia
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Hello and welcome. It seems improbable that this could be a nickel planchet, for several reasons. 1. Nickel planchets are bigger than pennies; this seems to be the same size. 2. A nickel weighs exactly 5 grams; the mint tolerance for a nickel blank is a minimum of 4.8 grams. 4.3 grams would be seriously underweight; an actual nickel weighing only 4.3 grams and not showing an otherwise obvious explanation (such as acid damage) would be considered a mint error. 3. The coin appears to have a copper plating, just like a normal penny. the Mint receives penny planks pre-plated by the zinc company they buy them from, so the probability of the Mint wrongly plating a nickel blank is essentially zero. This being said, the overweight nature of your coin does need explaining. 4.3 grams is considerably overweight for a penny, and would be considerably overweight even for a bronze penny. You don't show us the other side of the coin. What I suspect we're seeing here is a magician coin, where a nickel has been hollowed out on one side and a ground-down penny stuck inside the hole. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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United States
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to CCF Can you post up better images of both sides of your coin for us, Please not a Pinterest posting of it.. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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To CCF! I'd like to see clearer in focus images of your coin.  Errers and Varietys.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'll pile on for better pictures, especially of the edge. I suspect it may be in a bezel.
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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I agree with lcutler.
Being in a bezel would account for the magnetic reading and the extra weight.
Better pictures would verify this.
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New Member
 United States
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This coin weighs 4.3 grams come up as a 5¢ on metal detector as thick as a nickel what do you think?   |
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United States
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@123, first welcome to CCF. Second, can you please get us a weight and diameter for this coin? Thx.
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New Member
United States
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It weighs 4.3 grams it as round as a penny and as thick as a nickel
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Moderator
United States
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Duplicate topics merged. |
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United States
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I'll be going with the bezel theory also.
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New Member
United States
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What if the whole sheet of nickel was stamped into penny planchet s then it would fit into the penny hopper
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New Member
United States
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I did not say it is magnetic I said it read on metal detector 5¢ and it is non magnetic
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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What if the whole sheet of nickel was stamped into penny planchet s then it would fit into the penny hopper I realize sometimes the Mints quality control is a bit weak but not that weak!  |
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Posted 07/21/2025 08:29 am
