Anyone ever seen this?

Found a 1961 d penny that is the size of a German 1 pfennig. Weighs 2.5g edges are smooth like normal rim?

 

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Post mint damage...the cent has been ground down.

 

most likely to make a phone call back in the day (dime)

 

We would rub 'em on the sidewalk until they'd work in the Coke machine!

 

LOL, you are joking, aren't you? Someone just mangled that cent and now I wouldn't even accept it as a spendable cent.

 

I have a couple of dozen of them, as noted above they were ground down by @derkerlegand to use to make phone calls and buy soda from machines - vending machines back in the 1960s took coins based on a rough weight and not an electric signature so they could be fooled into accepting them.

 

Totally damaged.

 

Oh wow! I had no idea they actually did that back in the sixties, how rad! What a cool piece of history you all just taught me, thank you so much! Seems this little cent has paid me with knowledge tyty

 

Southernman has the mark on this one.

 

I first read of this practice on this forum some time back. Since then, I've found a couple of these - also from the '60s. Neat!