Hello everyone, I came across a 1905 indian head penny that is a lot different than a normal one. there is comparison pictures with a normal 1905. the coin weighs 1.3 grams, the surface is no different than the other 1905, no micro pitting,it is just the slightest bit smaller in diameter and a whole lot thinner.On the obverse liberty,pearls and diamonds are very light because of a week strike. The reverse is all there but again not as detailed as the obverse. So I am trying to figure it out. Thanks
What does the surface of the acid bath coins look like. I thought it would be pitted, acid I thought would leave pits in the surface of the coin, This coin has the same surface texture if you will as a normal 1905, even at 500x magnification.
Out of curiosity--did you acid treat these examples youself to see what it would do to the coin, or are you making a supposition that this was done to them?
Mine had me fooled actually, since it has the same look as a regular cent, just smaller, lighter and such. Not all acids cause pitting. Look at acid treated Buffalo Nickels; those do not show pitting.
I did not do this to the coin; I actually found it when I was sorting through a friend's collection. I thought it was some sort of error, messed up planchet, or wrong planchet, or something. I showed it to an online club that I'm a part of and every member who replied let me know it was acid bathed. It was most likely used to turn that cent into a dime-sized coin to fool a vending machine. Man-made, but still cool.
