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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 983384, member: 4703&quot;]Even if you can&#039;t weigh the coin, you <i>can</i> check it&#039;s weight against regular coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>All wheat cents (except the 1943 steel ones) and Memorial cents dated earlier than 1982 weigh 3.11g.&nbsp; Get a pencil, a popsicle stick or similar short, flat piece of wood, and 2 3.11g cents.</p><p><br /></p><ul> <li>Center the wood on the pencil with a known weight cent on each end.</li> <li>Carefully adjust the position of the wood until the cents balance.</li> <li>Remove one of the cents without changing the position of the wood, and replace it with your coin.</li> </ul><p><br /></p><p>If yours goes down, it is heavier than normal, if the other one goes down, your coin is lighter than normal, and if it balances yours is right on.</p><p><br /></p><p>jallengomez is almost certainly correct - I just wasn&#039;t going to mention that probability until you verified the weight of your coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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