Wierd penney

Anyone know what is up with this Penny? Is it a mint error or did somebody take The time to the Deform this coin .It has absolutely no Rim .it looks very weird but I can't tell if someone altered it .Any info would be appreciated

 

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Altered, purposely deformed, damaged!
Not a Mint Error! sorry

 

Paddy, maybe you should provide classes (for a fee, of course) for people who don't have the slightest idea what a normal coin is supposed to look like. Better yet, why don't you write a book......."Strike It Rich With Normal US Coins"? It could be a best seller!

Chris

 

Maybe he should write a book about you minding you own business. I am sorting my collection from when I was a kid and want to know which ones I should protect. I am keeping them for kids and not trying to get rich. And if I don' know I ask. If you don' want to answer the question then don't reply . I figured it was alterd but wanted a secound Opinion so I asked

 

People used to file cents down to dime size for use in vending machines...check it's size and compare with dime weight.

 

I already tried that, and it didn't sell.

Chris

 

That is a lot of work for 9 cents. There must be some really cheep people out there

 

Thanks for your help

 

Back in the 1950's some copper cents were used by some people to reconnect electricity when it got cut off. I imagine some coins may have ended up looking like this one.

 

9 Cents was worth a lot more long ago than what it's worth now. I have seen signs for diners from the 30's, 40's and 50's offering full meals for like $2.00 - $3.00

Here is a menu from the 1940's - look at the prices!

 

As a young

kid, my dad would put a cent in with a fuse in the fuse box to prevent overload. Not real smart by today's standards, but it did work. It did melt the cent when a circuit was overloaded however.

 

That's kind of what I meant. My dad would turn the electric back on with a penny when it got cutoff for non payment. Everything is newer now so you can't do that.

 

Clever answer.

 

Welcome to the forum.

 

Unfortunately, it wasn't the OVERLOAD he was preventing, but instead the emergency shutdown response DUE to the overload. A great way to start a fire, by the way.

 

And a spectacular Dinner Show to boot!

 

It doesn't look like one used to "fix" a fuse, since it is a zinc center and probably too new for that. Also, there are a lot of scrapes and scratches that would not result from electrical heating. Nor does it appear to have been clipped to pass for a dime, again because it is too new for that to be worth the effort and because the scrapes are not what one would do for that purpose. I notice the image of Lincoln is not scraped at all. I suspect someone was "whittling" to while away time, perhaps thinking to isolate the Lincoln image for a novelty.

 

Thanks Michael for telling (...)

 

Well, it might have been the difference in value; after all, ten cents from 1913, for example, is $2.50 now.

 

Looks like it was dipped in acid.