Everything about this Lincoln Cent just doesn't look/feel right, but the edging is reeded like a dime and it is almost the same size diameter! Weight is over by .20g (approximately), and there's no indication that it was stamped over or onto an existing dime. Pictures are attached, let me know if I missed a critical angle, measurement, or weight in the pictures. I'm guessing this is a bad attempt at trying to make it into a known error, can't wait to hear back from everyone! Thanks in advance! PS: found it while roll hunting through a box I picked up from Chase.
Lols!!!! That was a good one. Besides, I'm already up .27 cents. I found three dimes that are discolored brown in three separate rolls. Not sure if someone was using them as count holders or just thought they were cents from the looks of them.
Actually you are up 27 cents (no decimal point) or $0.27. If you are going to account for your gains to pay for that Bentley, decimal points are important!
You are correct! I was intending to insert the dollar sign, as you pointed out, but in my haste to reply, hit send too quickly.
Well for starters if it was struck on a dime planchet it wouldn't be copper colored. Two the weight is .1 grams ABOVE the maximum weight tolerance for a dime. Three, inorder to have reeding on the edge it would have to have either been struck on a previously struck dime, or struck in a dime collar. The color, there not being any traces of a previous dime design, and the fact that it isn't round argue against the idea of being struck on a dime, and the fact that the cent die would not fit inside the dime collar argue against that possibilty. (Plus if it could again the coin would be perfectly round.) It looks like it has had its edge ground off and the "reeding" you see are the tool marks from the grinding.
Someone was trying to make a penny that would fit into a vending machine and register as a dime. They likely were planning on setting up an automated way to grind a bunch of them down to dime size and make 9 cents per rework. Probably didn't work since the penny is thicker than the dime and this prototype is all that remains of another get rich quick stupid idea.
It worked. Grind off the edge and it used to work as a dime in a vending machine. Yes, I did it when I was a teenager just to see if it would work, but then I got scared and never did it again. lol
I concur with pennsteve. In jr high, we used to rub one edge off a cent as well as grind down one side of the cent on concrete (the diameter would be the same as well as the thickness to that of a dime) and then that penny could be inserted into a parking meter, turn the handle and voila, you had ten cents worth of time on that meter. Early 80's that was a lot of time on the meter and if you need more time just repeat the process. Worked every time, or so I heard...
