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Message:: [QUOTE="phankins11, post: 2115256, member: 70703"]From what I understand, a blank can look like an ordinary piece of round metal with pretty rough surfaces, after all it was just a sheet of metal. While for the cent, the blank is fed into the upsetting mill first, which turns it into a planchet, they all (blanks that don't get a rim and planchets) go through a burnishing mill ( <a href="http://www.coinnews.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Burnishing-Mill-Process.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinnews.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Burnishing-Mill-Process.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinnews.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Burnishing-Mill-Process.jpg</a> ) which will remove all that uneven roughness and clean and shine those little sucker up. Again the look is consistent with a freshly punched blank which has not made its way through an upsetting mill or the burnishing mill. LOL me too...I've not been able to find one. Another potential is that it could just be a slug for testing or hacking a coin operated mechanism. <a href="http://scity.com/coin-mechanisms" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://scity.com/coin-mechanisms" rel="nofollow">http://scity.com/coin-mechanisms</a> (scroll to the bottom) while pictured here is a dime size slug, its entirely plausible that what the OP found was a cent sized slug used for "testing" the coin operated mechanism.[/QUOTE]