Hello, I found a cent that is 1/8 of an inch to big. Its on the wrong metal. When dropped it makes a tinging sound and has NO Copper Coating. It is a BEAUTIFUL full strike with little to no scratches. the date is 1992. I have pics but they are 3.5 megs. How do I reduce the megs to 250K so that I can post them to show them? Has anyone encountered a cent like this? I know that the us mint does coinage for other countries and stuff but this is definitely not from a us nickel or a dime as I weighed them! The cent is 2 grams on my scale, a regular cent is 2 grams on my scale. A nickel is 3 grams so it is not a nickel on a cent..or a cent on a nickle. So I weighed the dime and it was 1 gram on my scale. So, my cent is not a nickel or a dime. Any ideas? The cent was found in a roll of nickels
Welcome to the site Yashi! If you don't have any image editing software on your computer, I suggest: opening a Photobucket.com account, upload the picture (you can have the site resize your photo), then post the link in the "insert image" icon and we can see the coin. There are a lot of possible reasons to explain your coin but we need pictures to try and explore them...
If it weighs the same as a normal cent, maybe it was just 'squeezed' wider in a vise. Is there any distortion to the coin. In the absence of pics...anything is possible.
If a zinc cent is heated enough it kind of "spreads out" and also loses it's copper coating. This is more than likely what happened to your cent.
Cent Thanks for the shout back... Well I am still having problems with resizing the cent so I am just going to take pics of it with a lesser quality on my camera and maybe that will do the trick. Here is the thing about heating the cent. My cent, 1992 was made after they converted to zink. So, its not as if they took a 1982 cent and heated it to stretch it out cause the metal is not zink. If you take a 1992 cent, stretch it out by 1/8th and drop it..its still going to be zink. This cent is NOT zink. I have dropped it for several people now. Some say its steel, some others say its nickle without the shininess, others say looks just like the 1943 steel cent. So, I dropped the 1992 cent and then a 1992 zink cent. Everyone says..different metal. I will get a 1943 cent and drop it and see what happens. As for the strike, I took a pic with my Cannon 8 Meg pix camera. The Strike is PERFECT right down to the hands of Lincoln sitting on the chair in the center of the coin. The "thickness" of the cent is uniform all the way around. There is no warping, no "stretching" of the design. So to alter the size will warp the image, but please explain how this would alter the composition if the metal.
It would not alter the composition but would alter the "ring" if dropped. A struck coin sounds different than a cast coin, if a struck coin is partially melted it will sound as if cast.
