1995 Penny Struck on Wrong Planchet ?

NO, NO, NO it isn't struck on a foreign planchet. Error Coin News published 60+ page table of all the foreign coins struck by the U.S. Mint. Look in the archives, or Google it and then tell us which one you think it is?

Also, a planchet is blank. If it was struck on a planchet made for a foreign coin, how can you see something?

 

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As I said, the foreign planchet will be a different size and weight (except for a couple of exceptions, and then you wouldn't be able to tell the difference anyway).
This is done so lower valued foreign coins are not substituted for US coins in vending machines, tolls, etc.
And if this coin was on a foreign planchet, it would not have full cent rims. If the planchet was smaller, the lettering would be into the rims, if the planchet was larger the coin would be thicker, heavier, there would be a little room outside the rims all around the coin.
This coin exhibits none of these features.
What I think you are saying is that you think this coin was MINTED OVER a foreign coin, which is not the same thing at all, and again the answer is no.
A foreign coin would have to be introduced accidentally or on purpose into the coining press. And then they would have to find this one coin out of billions in circulation. This type of scam has been done before, and usually the coin is not released into circulation. But clandestinely taken out of the mint to profit from this "mint error".
The planchet is a blank piece of metal that becomes a coin after it is minted.

 

Don't forget, the OP wasn't the one claiming to see things and thought it was struck on a foreign planchet/coin. It was @Doug swanson who was pushing this theory. Doug, did you do any research to support the foreign coin theory, or are you satisfied with the explanation that it can't be struck on a foreign coin/planchet?

 

Simple - it's be de-plated.

 

Yes Hoopster you are correct different posters, so I edited the post.
And always nice to be agreed with by Fred W. going back to my post #3.
(Plating removed).

 

Nope.. Just a normal US Cent with the plating removed.

 

I bought this digital scale and weighed the penny I just get 0 grams I added a 2018 penny in second photo to show the scale is working properly

I bought a digital scale, it comes up zero. I added a 2018 penny in the second photo . Coin dealer seems to think it's aluminum.

 

you have to tare the scale without anything on it first. Take both cents off, tare the scale (read your instructions on how to do that), then put the cent you want to weight on it.

 

Same result when I weigh the 1995 it drops to 0. I need to order a gram scale I think to get the proper reading for my coins

 

Even an aluminum coin that size will have weight..
It is impossible to weigh 0 grams

 

Right, I think it's the scale anything less than 1 gram it just drops to zero

 

That would most likely be less than 0.5 g which would round off to zero. What should an aluminum cent weigh?

The best way to determine if you have a 1974 aluminum cent is to weigh it. The few 1974 aluminum cent's that were graded and authenticated by PCGS were 0.937 grams and a normal 1974 copper/zinc one cent piece is 3.11 grams.

This should round to 1 g.

 

But the OP's Cent is 1995.. not 1974

 

Sorry, I copied and pasted that from a Google answer. Any aluminum cent should weigh 0.937 g rounded off to 1 g

 

The only other thing I can think of is that what you have is a Cent that is just the Copper Plating missing the Zinc core. I have seen experiments where they drill a tiny hole on the edge of the Cent and put the Cent in a chemical that dissolves the Zinc but leaves the Copper Plating intact. That would eliminate much of the weight.

 

I have filed the edges and put them in hydrochloric acid, but the plating is so thin, it floats.

 

So what your saying paddyman98 is that this coin had liposuction

 

Then your coin dealer is an idiot!

 

That's a nice aluminum 1 Cent my coin dealer looked at that Penny to he also said it was aluminum so I guess ur going to say hes an idiot to