Found Penny

Here's a penny i found in the register at work over a year ago.
it's very light feeling. and the color is more like a steel penny.
a guy in a coin shop tried to tell me it was a counterfeit penny
made by a Dungeons and Dragons guild in the 80's. hmmmm.

anyway, whatya think ?

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Odd, but I did come across this story about a gold counterfeit... They mention the fake was slightly smaller because of the cast shrinking. Does your penny perfectly line up to a normal one?

http://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/04/a-counterfeit-penny-made-of-gold/

 

Found Penny-

Actually it is a cent--England and the former British Empire countries generally have pennies.

 

fair enough... Found Cent.

but hey over 100 of you have looked at these pics.
and i know there not the best, but you can clearly see
that this coin is odd.
Not one of you has an idea what this is ?
gimme some feedback please.


thanks all :smile

 

This site has a photo of a similar item, also a 1987 cent. S/he believes it to be a forgery, comments the size and thickness are slightly different.

http://128.192.145.172/dan29.html (item 7)



I noticed on the reverse that you can barely make out Lincoln in the memorial. I could believe it is a forgery based on a cast of a real penny. It doesn't seem like the flat background was ever smooth.

 

thanks specksnyder. the plot thickens.
mine appears to almost have a "grain" to
it like wood. odd.

p.s. im comparing mine to a cent right now.
and mine to is bigger than a 1973 that i
had in my pocket.

 

It has the bumpiness of a cast counterfeit, but is not something one would do for profit. I think it was burned.

 

Burned ?

 

It looks like it may have been in a fire maybe a science expiriment.

 

The problem is that we have to look to see if we might know - and then we choose not to post a I don't know. 100 I don't knows would be a waste. As it is I do not think it is a case counterfeit, but it does remind me of some pennies I have found in parking lots.

 

again, total noob here. i know nothing of coins.
but given what little ive been told about this,
and the size of the thing, im convinced it is some
type of copy of a coin. but, who and why.

look at the pics for size comparison.
camera noob too

click pics to enlarge

 

PMD, road kill, dryer time and an acid bath.

 

I have a zincoln that was in a fire, and it is larger than un-burned cents. I'll try to post a pic if I can find it.

 

SMELL IT! no it probably doesn't retain the smell of fire.

 

after that taste it. no don't do anything with zinc. Use your senses. but good luck with hearing it.

 

im confused.
but yea. maybe it was in a fire. made it a little bigger ?
but why this guys funny D+D story ?

thanks for all the feedback guys.
paul