Blank planchet not American coin

Because the the weight is 4.18 grams and slightly bigger than a American cent. What could this be?

 

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A copper slug?

Where did you aquire from?

 

It was with the coins I was gifted.

 

Ok..

 

Yeah it can't be a Canadian. They weigh 3.1 or great Britain. I'm searching the weights of them and they are not matching.

 

Could it just be a slug, or a knockout from an electric junction box?

 

What is its exact width and thickness?

Looks like a pouchout/press slug.

 

20mm thick. Hope it doesn't match a slug lol

 

Could be. Not sure yet.

 

Has a Woody look.

 

In the artsy world they press/cutout discs from flat sheets of metal usually in standard increments.

One side of your round edge looks like it shows tearing. So I'd guess it was simply some thing made for art stuff. But im not am expert on blank round discs. Check out rio Grande website for these metal sheet and tools to do it for examples.

here is one such "manual hammer" tool for example

 

As a rule, a knockout from an electrical box will have a very small part of the edge that shows where it was connected to the box. We just had a thread with a photo of one posted here not too long ago.

Chris

 

Yes that was my thread I believe. But this one doesn't have that edge.

 

Agreed! It doesn't have that edge. That is why I don't think it is a knockout.

Chris

 

So what do you think it is Chris? Those were my best guesses. I really have no idea.

Shrews, do you know what it is made of, the material?

It doesn't look like a coin planchet or blank, to me, but I'm no expert on those.

 

Your guess is as good as mine. It would help if someone had an XRF analyzer (I think that is what it is called.) to determine the type(s) of metal content in the slug.

Chris

 

Yes, it's called an XRF analyzer. There's a jewelry store near me who buys silver and gold and they have one. Whenever I have a new coin that might be suspect, I take it there and they shoot it for me for free.

 

Agree with all above. I wouldn’t expend much effort to analyze it. Not a coin imo. Maybe scrap copper. Or the cat hoard lol

 

Possible that it's just a copper slug and not a blank planchet.
The electrical punch outs are usually a white pot metal, so I didn't think it was that.
But copper slugs of all shapes and sizes are always turning up. See if it sticks to a magnet. If it were truly a foreign planchet, you would just have to look up different countries that use copper coins, and try to match the weight and size.
95% it's just some type of slug.

 

Darn edit function. Because if it sticks to a magnet it's junk and not a planchet. There are some cheaply made modern foreign coins that will stick (steel and nickel) but the color on this suggests that if it sticks, the composition is not a copper coin composition.