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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Michael K, post: 3127577, member: 78298&quot;]No. Zinc. If it were struck on a foreign planchet, that blank wouldn&#039;t have any devices yet, if it were struck on another coin that was already minted, you would clearly see other letters numbers and designs. The first key is to weigh the coin.</p><p>2.5g for zinc. That would disqualify everything. Another is size. Size can be altered, but if it stacks with other cents and doesn&#039;t look out of place, it was struck on a cent planchet. Let&#039;s say the weight and size are off.</p><p>Do some homework and see what foreign coins Philadelphia was minting in 1983, in order to see what country/ denomination/ size and weight of the coin is.&nbsp; It would have to be a copper or copper alloyed (or zinc) coin of similar size and weight. It would have to be smaller since a larger coin would not fit into the hub. Some of the Panama and Bahamas coins are the exact size and weight as US coins, and they are 1-1 with the US dollar. But all of the other countries are not, intentionally to discourage a lower valued coin being able to be used in US commerce, machines, etc.</p><p>The odds are about a billion to 1 your coin is just a damaged cent.</p><p>True errors are extremely rare and finding a coin struck on a foreign planchet/ or foreign coin in circulation is highly unlikely.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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