Lincoln Cent 1946-S altered penny made to pass as dime

I checked the local CoinStar machine today and saw several coins in the reject bin.

Usually a foreign coin causes the machine to reject coins, buy all 30 of the coins were US pennies, probably from the same person but I can not be sure.

One had been hammered to nearly the size of a quarter; that one probably caused the rejection.

Of the others, 8 were zinc, 19 were Lincoln Memorial copper, and two were wheat pennies, a 1956 which had two wire-cutter marks, and this altered 1946-S penny:



The coin was probably altered with a file to pass as a dime in a vending machine.
It weighs 2.67gm, is 19mm in diameter, and the sides are smooth.

I had heard of pennies altered this way but had not seen one until now.

On December 3, 2010 President Obama pardoned a man for doing this "coin mutilation" in 1963, posted here:
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/pres-obama-pardons-man-convicted-of-mutilation-of-coins.143584

 

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Interesting!