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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 989228, member: 66&quot;]A &quot;Texas&quot; cent, quarter, whatever, is created by putting the coin between two pieces of stiff leather and beating it with a sledgehammer.&nbsp; The leather conforms to the surface of the coins and distributes the impact evenly over the entire surface of the coin causing it to expand outward evenly.&nbsp; The end result is a larger coin with all the details larger but still maintaining the original proportions.&nbsp; They are called &quot;Texas&quot; coins because &quot;Everything is bigger in Texas.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>For some reason though every post 1982 Texas cent I have seen is also missing the copper plating.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know if something about the process removes the plating or if people are deliberately removing it before of after because the stretching process would probably result in splits in the plating.&nbsp; I think if I was doing it I would leave the plating nad the once I had made it larger give it a quick thin electroplating to hide the splits.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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