i buy bags of unsearched wheat cents from my local coin dealer and a few months back i ran acrossed a 1956 D that is the same diameter as a dime it is made of copper however. i was wondering if the mint produced foreign coins that year or if anyone has any information on this? thanks, cody
i do not have a scale to weigh it unfortunately, maybe i can pick up one of those letter scales. on with the pictures, sorry coiuldnt find the digi so the blackberry will have to sufice for now :/
I have one of these too and everyone seemed to think it was done with a belt sander or something? I still ,however, find it an interesting keepsake. look closely at the rim with a jewelers loupe and look for alteration marks
i have looked on the edge and it doesnt appear to be altered, i tryed taking a picture of it but i couldnt get a good enough one. it looks like it was rimmed on the reverse edge but on the obverse edge its perfectly straight. i
I can see horizontal striations along the rim from your photo. Possible alteration as the coins after being struck go down a narrowing chute that "pushes up" the rim (actually squeezes it) on the pennies so unless it was struck and taken out of the line and then was placed in circulation before that process was finished I would have to deduce that it is an alteration of some type. Just my opinion.
this was altered, like so many others were, so that it fit like a dime into a coke machine back when bottles of coke cost a dime. Richard
