I was going through my old coin collection and noticed that one of the pennies in there has no back. Not sure how to tell if this is an error or just someone decided to blast off the back of it. The coin was approximately 3.1 grams if that helps. I can post a picture if needed but I don't have a very high resolution camera so I'll skip that for now. Anyone ever heard of this/have a way of identifying whether it is real or not? Your help is very appreciated -Gil edit: not sure if you can tell in the video but the back is completely smooth, like no raised surfaces at all. [video=youtube;Dr2RFSGgpOM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr2RFSGgpOM&feature=youtu.be[/video]
It's probably just worn a lot, but this thread is pretty much useless without pictures :/ We don't mean to be harsh, but descriptions don't do us much good
It looks too smooth to me. Like someone ground it down and polished out the tool marks. You could weigh it to confirm.
if you are going to post vids please slowly i appreciate the vid but still photos would have done just as well and you might want to weight it and show us the edge..
I just couldn't get a good shot with the camera, like I said low resolution. Also in my original post I did say I weighed it, it came out to 3.1 grams. I'm new here, sorry if I didn't go by the proper manner.
A couple years ago someone was selling a bunch of wheat pennies by bulk in Georgia I bought about 100, there was a few VDBs, that one, and nothing else really noteworthy. I couldn't ever determine if it was real or not and eventually forgot about it until now.
It's possible this coin could be a real mint error. there are a few real ones out there that are struck only on one side. this happens when two planchets enters the coining chamber at the same time with one being on top of another one. if this one weighs 3.1 grams then it is probably a real one.
COMPLETELY flat and smooth, it's a fake. Yes they do exist, but the resulting one sided coins are not completely flat and smooth on the blank side. The weight does tell us that this coin started out a little on the heavy side, but you can take a normal 3.1 gram cent , grind the entire reverse off and still be within the mint tolerance.
So then something like this 1962 would definitely be ground down then, right...since there are no outside edges on the blank side?
