I was so thrilled to finally find a 2020 penny! Since the first one I’ve found a few more, here and there. But in the last few days I’ve found a high number of them in change from vendors and in coin rolls. I just opened a roll of pennies and found 17 and most of them showed signs of circulation Nd fairly heavy use. I guess they are being fully distributed. Last year I read n artillery that warned, for reasons forgotten, to expect a deluge of doubled die Shield pennies on the reverse. Well I’ve been looking and haven’t seen the first one. Was there an issue with Shield pennies? Am I just missing them or was I given a red herring? Also I see a lot of coins labeled as “dryer coins”. What’s the story there?
I hate Zincolns, but I'd never thought of loading them into shells and using them as projectiles. (They wouldn't even be good for that; not dense enough.) Dryer coins get caught in a spinning mechanism. It pushes in their rim, making the rim thicker and the coin's diameter smaller.
It's zinc and it's a horrible coin. Doubling would be common place on them and it all falls under NAV Doubling.
