what ever it is on the face of this wheat penny has covered the date. but you can clearly see it is a wheat penny from the back. i believe it could be zinc melted onto it i just dont know how to go about this. any ideas?
you are asking for an answer that you would have to ask the person that did that. Let's assume this. Maybe someone was learning how to use a soldering gun and solder ? If you saw a car with the front crunched in, do you ask yourself how it could have happened during manufacturing, or do you see it and assume they hit a light pole? ie, assume something is damage FIRST (because the methods of damage are UNLIMITED), then think of how it could have happened and don't limit your thinking in any way. Then if you can't think of anything then maybe think of possibly a mint error, but then you'll have to learn all about how minting takes place to understand that 99.9% of the "errors" people think they see are actually PMD - Damage, Post Mint Damage after the coin has left the mint.
It indefinitely is not a mint error someone had too much time on their hands.IMO Welcome to Cointalk Dave
Yep, big blob of solder. There are a thousand reasons someone might try to solder something to a coin, or solder a coin to something. It also looks like it was polished first, probably to make a clean surface so the solder would stick. Welcome to CoinTalk!
One used to find nickles or quarters soldered onto nails and stuck into the floor or a bar at a tavern. A little trick to see who would try to pick it up. Haven't seen one in a long time.
I had a penny with thick glue all on the obverse side and I peeled it off. Then the cent looked pink because of it.
