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Probably a rolled thin planchet. Normal weight of copper plated zinc cent is 2.5 grams +/- .10g (2.4-2.6g).

 

It weighs the same amount as a dime

 

Not 2.4 but 2.25

 

83 d small date

 

83 d small date

 

And no weighed 5 times first 3 2.2 last 2.25 grams

 

I think it's was struck on a clad dime planchet

 

Diameter 17. Mm

 

Weight adds up and the thickness measurements

 

If it was struck on a clad dime planchet, wouldn't it look the color of a clad dime? Pretty clearly a cent planchet, just a little underweight. As previously mentioned most likely rolled thin.

 

Maybe it was struck in Malaysia! If we tried hard enough, we could come up with all sorts of illogical reasons. But, let's be realistic. What is the most likely cause?

 

However, per your original question, it is an 83.

 

I decline the invitation to another of your hallucination parties

 

It's a thin-rolled planchet. It's no big deal. The thickness of the sheet it was punched from was rolled a little thin. Bake six-billion cookies punched from cookie sheets and if you get one that's a little thin that's how big a deal this is.

 

Just a slightly thin rolled cent on a copper coated zinc planchet. Nothing to write home about. It happens.

 

'83 Zincoln, nothing more, nothing less. No value, oh sorry, face value.

 

Maybe his scale is not calibrated.

 

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