Ohhh @cpm9ball !! Aaaahhhhhhhaaaa!!!! Thank you very much. I will sleep tonight. What was puzzling me most of all is that i could not see any of the interior metal showing Looks like the plating was covering the indented parts. They squeezed, just enough to press the plating into the coin. Tricky!! Lol!!
Yea, what's with everyone abusing poor innocent pennies with dykes/clippers/snips? Are they not wires that need cutting/snipping somewhere?