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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 268222, member: 66&quot;]I think it is a &quot;Texas nickel&quot; that has been beaten between a couple pieces of leather so that it would spread out in size, and then it has been cut back down to the size of a nickel.</p><p><br /></p><p>That would explain the enlarged image (from the pounding), and then cutting it back down to size would explain the weight loss.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only way to get that weight otherwise would be to strike the coins on a foreign planchet (But the coin is dated 1996 and the mint stopped striking coins for other countries in 1984.&nbsp; Sometimes one will sneak in with the cent planchets or dollar planchets but it is very unusual and normally they get struck as cents or dollars.)&nbsp; But if that was the case the image would be normal sized[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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