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I'm pretty sure this will end up being post mint damage but thought I would post it. It doesn't happen often where you are in a daze from staring at pennies for a few hours straight and flip a coin over and it is completely blank....It woke me up for sure. It weights 2.9 grams...I'm assuming its PMD but I am usually wrong about all my guesses...lol...I hope I am...   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Too light for copper, too heavy for zinc. I think it must be PMD. |
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Pillar of the Community
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2651 Posts |
It is copper (it rings when you flip it)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4846 Posts |
the reverse has been shaved off, sorry, but, PMD. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
12437 Posts |
 reverse has been removed |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Edited by CoinsKelly
07/12/2011 6:55 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Now for my real question: how did they do that and it still looks like it has a rim?
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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The rim is gone. They sanded the reverse off the coin.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2651 Posts |
So .2 grams is enough weight missing to be cosidered PMD? |
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United States
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It's not the missing weight that counts here.
What counts here is that it is impossible to mint one side of the coin without minting the other side, so something was done to this coin after it left the minting press. The proof that the reverse was removed is the fact that the coin is underweight.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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They also didn't remove all traces if the Memorial buiding. You can still see the left side and lower left corner, and the top edge of the building. (reverse image is rotated about 10 degrees clockwise from normal.)
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Posted 07/12/2011 6:08 pm
