1955 wheat penny 2.57 grams...?

Just found a 1955 wheat penny weighs 2.57 grams. I put it next to another 1955 and its HALF its diameter! It also makes a different sound when dropped. The coin is not very worn any ideas?

ob3rst

 

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Pictures.

 

Most likely Acid Dipped.. Acid wore away the Copper.

Sound tests mean nothing.

 

Here 2 pics

 

You need better pictures than that.
Obverse and Reverse.. Clear pictures.

 

Photos are too far away,
but it doesn't look like an
acid job from the first photo
on the scale.

Probably is a rolled thin planchet,
which is very very common for
that date.

With normal copper cents weighing
3.1 grams, 2.5 to 2.6 isn't that thin,
but it is thinner.

Please post a set of both obverse and
reverse, and we'll all be able to view
them, and tell you exactly what you
have there.

My guess, from the far-away photo, is
that it's rolled thin.

 

You meant half the thickness rather than diameter, this led to the 'acid shrunken' remarks.

Jim

 

Post some pics closer up, cropped and posted full size and @Fred Weinberg might be able to tell you if it is worth some bucks.

 

I hope this help I don't have right equipment to get best photis sorry

 

You've already got the best help available without me putting my two Wheat cents in.

 

so your telling me there is a chance, if you don't want to lose your two wheat cents ill send you 2 new ones, your are only hope

 

lol. What I'm telling you is that the guys who are helping you now, are much more knowledgable about coins than I am. Please listen to them , NOT to me.

"...putting my two Wheat cents in. " is just a "play on words", as in That's just my 2 cents, which in American vernacular simply means That's my opinion.

 

Thin planchet would be a good coin. Also a greaser (LIBERTY) and this coin has seen heavy circulation. Don't clean it.

 

Mornin' -- thx for the newer photos

It's a rolled thin planchet.

 

Just a worn out coin !

 

No, it's not just a worn out coin

It's on a rolled thin planchet.

 

Roughly speaking, what's the percentage of planchets that are thin like the OPs coin in a given year?

 

That's impossible to know - except that 1955
is the most common year of this error.


And, since they ended copper cents back in the
early '80's, it's now an obsolete error type.

 

I usually put a “disclaimer” on my “opinions”. I like to put in a little research and see if I am right or need to do some more learning.lol I would get way too bored if not trying to contribute at all as I don’t get very many new or interesting coins of my own to research.

 

thanks for all your help how much you think its worth if any