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Bmoney New Member United States 4 Posts	Posted 07/21/2011 02:41 am Hello! I am new to the site and this is my first post. I am not sure this is exactly where this post goes but being that I am not 100% sure of what I got I think it is the correct place. I have searched a 25 lb (volume) jug of pennies that had been collecting for 30 years in my house (was full for the past 10 years but we are moving and I got to sort through it). Anyways along with all the canadian pennies, these little zinc blanks were found periodically throughout the entire jug. They were mixed in through all the years and were not all put in at the same time. The reason I am wondering if they are actually zinc blanks is because they have no rim and have not been punched at all, like all the other ones I have seen. They also do not have any copper plating on them. I have heard of fakes being made in some factories, and I don't think that is what I got because they are all uniform and the same size, are a tiny bit smaller than a penny (with a millimeter or less of plating it would be the same size). They all weigh 2.3 grams (my scale doesn't weigh to the .00 grams). So I can see the copper plating weighing .2 grams. Thanks for any info you can give! Brandon Report this Post to the Staff

agandau Valued Member Australia 193 Posts	Posted 07/21/2011 05:23 am Quote: (my scale doesn't weigh to the .00 grams) Weigh 10 of the same at once, and then divide by 10 to get the extra decimal place. That large glass jug looks a fun thing on a wet day. I'd put it is a heavy bag when you move in case the weight inside breaks the glass if you hit a bump in the road. Report this Post to the Staff
Tam Valued Member United States 200 Posts	Posted 07/21/2011 08:37 am A bit out of the box here, do you see any "bumps" or lips or such on the edges? I just wonder if they are knockout plugs from electrical receptacles? Jut a thought. Report this Post to the Staff
wpd7 Valued Member United States 257 Posts	Posted 07/21/2011 10:56 am Yep, knockout plugs or round shims. See these all the time- used to use them in place of quarters on machines in the arcade with broken comparators when I was a kid! Report this Post to the Staff
wpd7 Valued Member United States 257 Posts	Posted 07/21/2011 10:57 am Just to clarify, they come in multiple sizes, but the ones I used back in the day was quarter sized. =) Report this Post to the Staff
Bmoney New Member United States 4 Posts	Posted 07/21/2011 7:32 pm Weighing 10.... I should have thought of that. Anyways thanks for your answers. I'm not super happy with the info but I was wondering how I could get so lucky when it takes people 40 years to find one. I have researched the electric plugs, I don't think they are them. They could be the shims I suppose, which is basically a washer without the hole? I don't know what plugs or shims looked like 20 years ago, flat and smooth like these? I weighed a dime and they are the exact same size and weight. There is no raised edges, beveled edges or anything like that. They are flat and smooth. I guess they couldn't be dime blanks could they? Thanks again for the answers, I became addicted again to searching and collecting coins and I will start posting alot more on this site. I'm assuming instead of the fake quarters you used to have that these were fake dimes? Report this Post to the Staff
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