Three Wheeties With Strange Crimped Rims. What Are They?

looking at the way the edge is mushroomed, I would say it is definitely post-die, but I wonder what caused it... Did you find them together? I can't think that any sort of rolling/sorting machine would do this. Odd.

These were probably in one of those "lucky penny" holders and were freed. Unfortunately, those holders damage the coin in the way you see here.

I agree with xshift...believe that damage comes from lucky penny holders or some other sort of 'holder'. I have a few like those. I keep them, just in case someday they are proved to be something else...who knows?

Thank you for posting this, captainkurt. I found a couple of US cents just like this when I went through a big bag of mixed foreign coins. I always assumed it was post-mint damage of some kind, but now I know exactly what kind. A liberated lucky penny never occurred to me.

It all goes to prove the old axiom, "There's no such thing as a question too silly to ask" - you never know who else is sitting around, wondering the same thing you are.