Well i found this coin a few weeks ago and noticed it was lighter and missing the rim along the sides. At first i thought some one must have filed the sides down for some reasion. But then i was reading a coin book about error coins and when i read the description on "Wrong planchet's" and the picture looked similar to this coin. i then weighed it and it was the same weight as a silver dime, 2 grams, while a regular wheat penny weighed 3 grams. Here are some pictures of it, jsut click on them for a larger picture. Any other ideas?
yeah thats what i thought before i weighed it, which was the same for a dime, even though it still looks like some one filed around the edges. Does any one else have and wrong planchet penny's they could post?
It is damage. It is not a wrong planchet as it is correct for the cent. If it was wrong, it would be lincoln on a silver planchet. If it was Rosevelt on the copper, then it would also be a wrong planchet. Jim
I suspect this coin has spent some time in a bath of acid which is why it is smaller than a normal cent. High school experiment Richard
maybe error has anyone had a indian head penny or one cent- where you can see silver on edge of coin- but front and back look copper? it is smaller just a little than my other indian heads ? oh its a 1905 just didnt make sense to me. any ideas thanks :headbang:
