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Message:: [QUOTE="AmandaK2006, post: 1090267, member: 28952"]Hi...I don't really know if this is considered an error or not?  But I figured I would post a pic of this penny I found and let you experts decide! I found a box of old coins at my grandparents house we are cleaning out.  Mostly pennies, some foreign coins.  But then I was really perplexed by this 1957-D penny.  At first I thought wow that is way too shiny to be a zinc-coated steel one...but then I realized after looking in my coin book that, that wasn't even the right year.  It should be bronze.  But I don't know if someone did this to this penny, or something happened to it? But it's really shiny, it has a weird rim around it, and the L in Liberty is covered by the rim.  And on the back, it looks like the rim is lifting off, you can see in the pics.  And I don't have a scale to weigh it, but just by holding it, it feels lighter than the regular bronze wheat pennies around the same years. So any ideas?  Thanks... <img src="http://i444.photobucket.com/albums/qq161/AmandaLK2006/IMG_1336.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://i444.photobucket.com/albums/qq161/AmandaLK2006/IMG_1335.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://i444.photobucket.com/albums/qq161/AmandaLK2006/IMG_1337.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]