Question about Lincoln Cent On Dime Planchet

Hi All
I found this coin that is the size of a dime and weighs 2.5 grams could it be a Lincoln Cent On Dime Planchet.
Thank You for your help and God Bless!:smile

 

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IMHO the weight is wrong---a dime planchet would weigh at 2.27grams...now if it was a silver planchet it would be 2.5...but its not silver.
A normal cent weighs 2.5 grams....and I would say that this coin was damged by acid...
I could be totally wrong so wait till more people post their thoughs.

Speedy

 

Speedy
I thought the weight for a 1970 Lincoln Cent was 3.11 grams and a 1970 Roosevelt Dime was 2.5 grams I might be wrong.
Thanks for you time and God Bless!!

 

Pennyman, the weight of the dime is 2.268 and the cent should be 3.110. I would think that even if the cent had acid damage it still have the cooper color. One thing to remember is that in 1970 the US mints did produced about 490,000,000 foreign coins. So your coin could be struck on a foreign planchet. You would have to find out what foreign coins where produced by the Denver mint in 1970. Then again Speedy may be right and you coin could be damaged.

Lou

 

well now ya'll got me going nuts---the Red book list the cent dating 1970 at a weight of 2.5....and a dime with the same date as with a weight of 2.27....so I don't know what I'm looking at

Speedy

 

That's definitely wrong- all 1981 and earlier Lincolns have a mass of 3.11 grams. Maybe a misprint?

 

Must be---I was useing a 2000 Red Book I think....

Speedy

 

The rough surface, mushy details, perfectly centered strike, and absence of metal flow in the peripheral letters indicates an altered coin. Possibly acid-etched and stained.

 

what does " absence of metal flow in the peripheral letters" mean or look like? is there a site that would explain all this? thanks

 

It basically means that the lettering nearest the coin's rim is poorly struck due to metal from the planchet not flowing sufficiently into the pheripheral recesses (lettering) on the surface of the steel die when the coin is being struck

Mikey-D can correct me if I'm wrong, because there's a good chance that I am.

-Brian

PS: Why bring back a 6-year-old thread?... Just curious.

 

It looks more like a coin that you see on a bracelet that has a holder that clamps around the coin so it will hang on the bracelet.
These coins are smaller in size but the holder they are placed in makes them the right size of the coin.
I have two dimes that were like this and i kept them because i liked the way they looked.
They have no value although they will pass in regular change.

 

Thanks for the replies. I have 1964-d penny that is about the size of a penny but thinner and weights 1.6 grams. The obv. looks like you said poorly struck around the rim, the fields look normal. The rev. looks about the same but it looks more like a early zincoln cent. I can still see Abe in his chair so i don't think it had an acid bath. Not much of a rim but where there is some you can feel it with your finger.

 

I think I found that I have split plancht. The ove. & rev. look the same. Heres the page. http://www.ebay.com/itm/VERY-SCARCE...92?pt=Coins_US_Individual&hash=item41638a17d4 Thanks again

 

That is the result of acid. I have a few coins like that and several have been posted in threads on Coin Talk in the past. The rippling orange peel effect gives it away.

 

Definately acid damaged like ikan said.

 

Ok thanks everyone

 

I agree that it is acid dipped. Zinc cents 1983 to date weigh 2.5 grams, but I have had them vary from 2.3 to 2.8 grams. But 50 will weigh 125 grams very consistently. I spot check this often when rerolling from roll searching.

The one you have should weigh in at 3.11 grams, but again there is a slight variation there, but I never found a copper cent that weighed as low as 2.5 grams unless it had been acid dipped. I have a 1942 acid dipped that is down to 1.8 grams.

Cents have been acid dipped to reduce them in size primarily for use in parking meters as I understand. They are non-magnetic so they bypass the magnet that takes out the slugs. Get them down to the size of a dime and they fit the mechanical slot. So they are not really uncommon. I still run across one every now and then roll searching. Seems they are always copper. My thought is that dimes stopped being used so much in parking meters OR the Zincolns dissolve in acid ?

Either way, I stick them in flips and keep them for conversaion pieces. I mean my total cost is less than 4c and it's a curiosity that gets people to discussing a lot of things. Parking meters, cheating the system, unfair taxes, on and on. Congrats on the find. Good eye !

Gary

 

NORRITT - are you still trying to sell that "probably acid-dipped" cent on eBay? Are you part of the problem or the solution? Just wonderin'

 

It's still on eBay for $350...

 

Its most likely someone cutting pennies into dime size when vending machines counted coins based on size
back in the 1960's,70's

:sniper:just like in this story of a Marine that did it in 1963 which Obama pardoned

acing: http://articles.latimes.com/2010/dec/05/nation/la-na-coin-pardon-20101205