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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Rob Robert, post: 4837700, member: 114653&quot;]Hi, New member here. I&#039;m a long time amateur coin collector, like &quot;rank&quot; amateur! I find them and keep them and that has been about it.</p><p>I found this coin in my pocket 10-15 years ago and took it home and put it away with other coins and forgot about it. The other night I was watching Pawn Stars and something jogged my memory about this coin. Sure enough, it was right where I left it years ago.</p><p>The coin in question is a 1974 Philadelphia Lincoln penny. It caught my eye immediately when I pulled it from my pocket with other change. It is a copper penny on the obverse and would draw no attention to itself. However, the reverse is gold colored bronze clad. To complicate things, the cladding is open for about 1/3 of the diameter centered on the upper and middle part of the memorial. The underlying copper has been struck by the die exactly as intended and the full reverse face is complete and nice. The cladding is definitely raised and very small traces of bronze can be seen around the opening on the copper. The rim or edge of the coin clearly shows the bronze against the copper. It appears to have very small stress cracks at a couple of spots. I think the cladding had a hole in it pior to being struck, it&#039;s the only way I can explain the fine die strike. I took it to the local jeweler and it weighed 3.2 gram. The coin is circulated, but probably not much and still retains a small amount of lustre (red state?) of the copper and the bronze is still shiny. It is non-magnetic. I&#039;m trying to upload photos now, bare with me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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