Hello all! Thank you for reading! I'm asking for your help in identifying what type of penny this would be considered. I believe the year is 1992. Thank you for any help!!!
Photos are terrible, but the prescence of an incuse Memorial design on both sides of a previously struck cent makes it virtually certain that this is either a squeeze job or a glue job.
Coins glued together, then pried apart, will leave hardened glue on one or both coins showing the impression of the coin that was pried off. Two coins pressed together in a vise will make the coins act as dies, impressing their images onto each other.
Ahhhhh. I see now. Thank you very much! Well, it's not a glue job as I have personally held the coin. If it were a vise job, wouldn't the coins diameter have some sort of deformity? I stacked another penny on this one and there was no difference in its diameter. Just wondering how it happened. Thank you again for all of the replies. You are too kind!
The pressure required to force the two coins to expand outward would probably be too great for someone to achieve using a vise. Besides, if they were to expand in an outward direction, there would likely be no uniformity of the expansion. It would probably result in an irregular shape rather than a perfect circle, sort of like an elongated cent. Again, the photos need to be clearer and show more detail. Chris
