Here's an oddity--someone deliberately appears to have scratched off the last digit of this Indian Head cent. It's the thick, copper-nickel type (4.43 g), so it must be a Civil War era type (1860-64). It's hard to tell, but I think the effaced digit is a 3. Maybe someone was unhappy about something from the Civil War which happened in 1863? Any speculations welcomed. It's a fun piece of history, even if the coin doesn't have much value with the date partially obliterated.
I may be mistaken but that does not look like scratches to me. It looks like a lamination detached itself from that area and took the last digit with it.
