Found this odd one

I find about 100 pennies a week with my metal detector but never came across something so odd it is a Penney the is inverted every line that should be standing up on the Lincoln memorial is inverted the other side is not so clean but it is Lincoln cant make much out tho just the shape of his head check these out.

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I wish you had better pics, but from your description, you have one of two coins that were glued together. Sorry, you won't be retiring on this one

 

Or stuck together and he is looking at a layer of dirt or gunk.

 

this looks like a rotted zinc cent because it is larger in diameter than normal.. the zinc swells up and rots and turns into dust , this leaves just a copper shell after a while. starting in 1982 our cent coins are just copper plating with zinc core

 

agreed :-( sorry

 

Well it is a single penny thinner and larger in diameter ill post a few better pictures after work

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It's a rotted cent like I said in post #4 our cent coins after 1982 are just junk IMO . a rotted one like this will not go thru a counting machine and it is not even worth a cent . our cent coins will stay in ok condition for a long time if protected from mother nature but if they get exposed to the elements of nature they rot like your's did.