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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Martha Lynn, post: 8274619, member: 101796&quot;]Occams razor would suggest your 2.5 gm U.S. minted one cent piece with memorial reverse was minted on the lower weight zinc planchet. If it were minted in &#039;82 or &#039;83 then yes you have a transitional cent. But there would be n a v because there are billions of them out there. The lower weight zinc planchet is associated with 1983, the transitional year, but they actually started using the new zinc planchets in &#039;82.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Whether your coin is a capped die with such a gob of grease on there it caused it to stay stuck on the hammer die for repeated strikes. Which could cause greaser effect to enhance. Or a gravel parking lot coin laying face down with 40 ton trucks rolling over it or what I don&#039;t know. I hope the TPG you send it to will fill in all the info. The few deep cuts, the A damage, and the strange pmd to the R in America don&#039;t convince me it is a copper planchet. The weight just works against that. And that R damage opened that loop up slick as a whistle. I don&#039;t see any feathered edges of moved copper. Super strange coin to say the least ![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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