2002 ‘Large’ Cent

Found this thing in pocket change. Any idea how something like this can happen? I assume PMD. If there is more to this than that, lemme know. Thanks!

 

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Yep... Texas cent.... Take a cent and lay it between a coupla pieces of leather and bang on it with a hammer. The layer of copper falls away and the cent grows in diameter with each successive strike.

 

I think I could have heard of that before. The rim on this one still quite prominent, sharp even. I am surprised it was not smooshed down some during the beating.

What’s the going rate on ebay for a ‘gem’ like this, $1K, $10K, $1M?

 

That would be Etsy.

 

Last year I found a bunch of them in a Coinstar reject bin. Same exact altered Cent..




Here's my thread on it.
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coinstar-finds-foreign-very-strange-lincoln-cents.406376/

 

This is a LARGE problem....

 

Very odd to have found so many in one place like that. Could there be a point to making a relatively large quantity of these like you found? Maybe they could pass, or were intended to pass, as nickels in a vending machine?

 

I was thinking more along the lines of passing as nickels concealed in a roll of nickels.