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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ARguy, post: 959256, member: 16047&quot;]Wish it were real, but it isn&#039;t.&nbsp; I believe that it&#039;s a copy of a cent rather than a half cent, even though it&#039;s smaller </p><p>in diameter than a real Mass cent.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>A buddy of mine brought a piece just like this to a local coin club meeting.&nbsp; He had found it on a baseball diamond in New Mexico.</p><p>The next meeting, I brought several real Mass coppers and one like his.&nbsp; When you hold them side-by-side, it&#039;s clearly a copy.</p><p>I also brought a pair of tin shears.&nbsp; My friend almost came unglued when I suddenly cut MY copy in half to reveal the white metal inside</p><p>the copper shell.&nbsp;&nbsp; Ever since, we&#039;ve joking referered to this as the &quot;tin snips&quot; variety.&nbsp; On your example, I believe that the white metal is shoing through the </p><p>exterior copper shell.&nbsp; Some time later, a Texas dealer came to a local coin show with a bag of 400 of these.&nbsp; He wanted $100 for the whole bag.&nbsp; He also had a </p><p>bag of &quot;unique&quot; 1776 Mass state penny copies.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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