Is This Lincoln Penny an Error

Hello, I found a penny from automatic change machine I received from Safeway and would someone be able to tell me if this Lincoln Penny is an error coin. There is no year date on the front and the words on the back "ONE CENT" are cut off and the words "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" are not visable as well. I hope that the photos I have posted will be some help. Thanks everyone!!

 

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dryer coin.

PMD

 

+1

 

+2

 

I don't think a dryer would do that, but I can't give you an explanation for the cause.

Chris

 

Could be ex-encased in some pendant, but either way it certainly looks like PMD.

 

+1 to 9ball and noncents.

 

Interesting specimen, regardless.

 

I don't know either, but dryers can do some strange things to coins:

 

Whoah!

 

:thumb:Not a legitimate coin error.

 

Has the copper plating (post 1982/3) been relieved of the zinc as a bubble?

 

my coin

I have a Lincoln cent almost exactly like this....I posted pictures of it a long, long time ago & was also told that it is a "dryer coin" -- odd for two coins to be so much alike from two people that dont know each other -- I dont think its possible they came out of the same dryer either!

 

I do the upkeep on the dryers for coin operated washer and dryers in my hometown.
These are dryer coins as i find them often and have a jar almost full.
Most of my finds are pennys but have a few dimes and only two 25 cent coins.
Ive tried to place a coin inside a dryer and keep check on it to see how long it would take it to completely lose the rim but they dont get to stay there that long.
While most never bother to pick up the dropped pennys a few like myself still do.

 

Are these pre-1982s? Just wondering if the puffyness is a result of the plating detaching from the zinc beneath or something else.

 

Puffiness does occur, but not near to the degree that your coin exhibits.

 

well there have been many examples shown in this thread. lol do you think there is only one magical dryer that can do this to coins. i have to agree with the others. just a dryer coin.

 

My coin (blue background) is a 1972 -- should be all copper, right? cant be plating detaching from zinc.

 

Right.

 

LOL -- do you think that two different dryers can make two of the same exact type coin found by two different people in two different states at two different times look almost identical? I mean, come on now -- look at the two pennies would you? I live in middle GA and have had this coin for somewhere between 2 & 3 years....if Im not mistaken the other person just recently got theirs and I have no clue where they are......like I said 2 years ago when I asked about the coin -- the term "dryer coin" is used an awful lot in this forum.