oversized 1 cent piece

I came across this in a cupful of mixed coins. Did not look at it closely until I got home and realized it's a 1909 VDB. It measures 22mm at the largest, 3mm over normal and only 1mm thick .5mm under normal. All the fetures are clear and readable. I am sure it was put through a press of some type. Anyone seen this before?

 

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Weigh it.

 

Here's a little info for you:

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/odd-large-oversized-1960-lincoln-cent.265530/

 

Thanks for the info. The leather process makes sense. But to use a xf 1909 VDB
make me figure it would have been done when it still worth 1 cent.

 

It's called a Texas cent. Pounded with a rubber mallet between two pieces of leather. When done on a post 82 zinc cent the plating also falls off

 

Not an error coin, but something I would keep as a conversational piece.

 

Here's mine.

 

I used to buy those 3" cast replicas in my local 5 & 10 store when I was a kid.

 

Yeah, I got one of those too. It's .999 %

 

@TJ1952 & @Cascade

Ok, now I want one ;-)

Will any old hammer work?

 

I have one of those too,mine is a 196? something though. I think they are called "texas cents" enlarging from the use of it being hammered or something through leather.

 

Received these last night from my neighbor for picking him up at BWI he was coming back from Las Vegas .
A gift from Ethel M chocolates . ...
I grade them MS - YUMMY !

 

No, only this works.

 

Haven't tried it. I'd start with a rubber mallet and few pennies both pre and post 82 and see what happens. Might take light blows and alot of time, might take hard blows and less time.

And just for reference only the op is a Texas cent. The other 2 look like a coaster and a giant copper bullion round

 

I have never heard of that before. Interesting, thanks for the info.

If done carefully, and not enough to change the diameter of the cent, this seems like a way to counterfeit an unplated cent. Do traces of the plating remain, or is this a convincing forgery?

 

It could be a somewhat convincing forgery of an unplated error I guess aside from the noticeably larger abnormal size as represented in the op pics. I'm no expert on them though and they are bountuful to the extent that they show up on forums as a "what is this" often.

 

So I tried to make one, put 1975 cent between two pieces of leather, put it in my 4 inch vice tightened vice and then pounded on vice with a three pound hammer for about a minute.I removed the coin and it had started to get a little egg shaped.
It's alot of work for 4 cents. A hydrolic press would be alot easier.
With the right press I bet you could make small plates out of a morgan $1.