I'm not a numismatist but I found a coin that may be unique. The main differences are obvious but I will list a few. Lincoln faces left and right on this penny depending upon the angle in which you view the coin. It has a small raised sharp edge to the right side of the head part of the portrait. It has multiple number and letter stamps. It weighs exactly 2 grams. I think it's interesting. I would appreciate any feedback provided from those who are more knowledgeable.
is that left over glue of when two cents were pressed against each other from two different generation planchets ?
Well it didn’t leave the mint looking like that. Looks as if pressed with another cent in a vice. Welcome to CT.
It's clearly dried adhesive with an impression of another Cent. @Collecting Nut It's not a vice altered Cent.
I didn’t type what I was thinking. Press in a vice against that rubbery glue that is used to stick coins to paper. Like when you get two cents from a place that was a donation. I was thinking it was in a vice just enough to get the impression but not hurt the coin like we usually see.
I think it is glue. The 1978 date is backwards and a 1978 cent would weigh 3.1 g, a 1994 cent should weigh 2.5 g
Welcome to this forum @Jinkies. This is a great place to get questions like yours answered. Your cent is as the members above already answered, but a wonderful conversation starter. I'd certainly keep it as such. Any other coin questions your have, just post them at CT.
Thank you to those who provided an explanation. We found the coin in the street. My son thought it was cool and I'd never seen anything like it. I thought it best to try to identify it before adding it to our spare change jar. I attempted to research the penny on my own. I did learn a lot about coins but still couldn't make a decision about the potential value. I'm not disappointed because we had fun with our curiousity and it's still worth .01 cent. Thanks again. P.S. The coin does weigh an even 2 grams.
I have that exact same scale. It's good for weighing food but not coins. You need something more accurate as it will just round up or down the number. Here is the same penny, on two different scales. a FOOD scale and a small jewelry scale. 2 grams vs 2.492 grams. I'm sure if you weighed a thousand pennies they'll either weight 2 or 3 grams .. no more and no less with a food scale.
@Jinkies here's the size difference of the scales. If you read your manual or the box it states weight is by x 1 gram. (no fractional grams)
that 1 gram rounded versus the scale I have in the image that goes to 0.001 gram I bought off of Amazon years ago.
