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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mynamespat, post: 2899532, member: 83738&quot;]This thread was a painful read.&nbsp; I would like to present OP with a link from a previous post of a similarly modified coin:</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/1997-d-penny-with-no-copper-plate-and-wrong-size-un-plated-wrong-planchet-ideas.222451/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/1997-d-penny-with-no-copper-plate-and-wrong-size-un-plated-wrong-planchet-ideas.222451/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/1997-d-penny-with-no-copper-plate-and-wrong-size-un-plated-wrong-planchet-ideas.222451/</a></p><p>Plus, with marginal amounts of google-fu other posts in other forums can easily be found.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>My guess is that it was flattened between two pieces of leather, possibly some of the fields removed with a dremel, and finally plated with mercury (or possibly just soldering led... with a small chance they used electrolysis to put a more permanent coating of a more substantial alloy..)</p><p><br /></p><p>Now to answer OPs question: &quot;why would someone do this?&quot;</p><p>Have you ever worked as a machine operator.&nbsp; Occasionally on a bad day a machine will crash and all hell will break loose.&nbsp; However, 90% of an operator&#039;s time is spent watching machines do their thing, feeding stock and checking tolerances.&nbsp; It&#039;s boring and mindnumbing.&nbsp; However, in a higher end production facility, a machine operator is surrounded by millions of dollars of high end awesome machining technology.&nbsp; Presses and lathes and mills and presses, acid bathes, welders, etc.&nbsp; For a person with Tim Allen mentality (hu hu huh, Tool Time), it&#039;s like a kid in a candy store.&nbsp; It&#039;s not a question of why does someone do something like this... In the right situation, it&#039;s a question of why not?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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