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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collect89, post: 1820568, member: 15445&quot;][ATTACH=full]298837[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]298836[/ATTACH] I met a guy that wants to sell this coin.&nbsp; Where do you think he should go to sell it &amp; what do you think it is worth today? </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="3">It appears to be a 1953 Lincoln cent struck on a Chromium Plated Stainless Steel planchet intended to make a Costa Rica 10 Centimos.&nbsp; </font></p><p>I looked in my book titled: “Domestic &amp; Foreign Coins Manufactured by Mints of The United States”.&nbsp; In 1953 the US Mint manufactured the 10 Centimos coin for Costa Rica. This Costa Rica coin was made from Chromium plated stainless steel.&nbsp; The planchets nominally weighed 1.73 grams &amp; the diameter was 18 mm.&nbsp; This planchet is much thinner than a normal cent planchet so the Lincoln design elements would not strike-up fully. This planchet would certainly fit into the US cent striking chamber which was 19mm diameter. I think it&#039;s a genuine error coin. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The guy wants to sell it so I informed him that it would need to be slabbed &amp; referred him to Heritage &amp; Richie Schemmer.&nbsp; What is something like this worth today?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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