Triple strike?

Exactly so I do a little welding here and there that looks like someone took a Dremel tool it can shave metal very fine. so it looks like whoever did it started in the center and went down to rim very light handed leaving the edge of his head and the b it's all very easy when your board I would never deface a coin but it has very similar features I've done with metal

 

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I don't think you'd get this result from grinding, though -- that would take off the copper layer, leaving only zinc, and it wouldn't stretch out the reverse features the way we see in these images, it would obliterate them. I'm still thinking this coin was smashed.

 

Sure, the rolls and boxes say "pennies" because it's a nickname for the cent that's always existed since the beginning of our country. A cent was the size of a penny, and they circulated alongside each other for many years.

But the US Mint has never struck a penny - I thought it was worth making that clear.

 

I guess they do - I find this pretty strange.

 

The Dremel tool is so precised hint that's why doctors us them it can take a layer of skin off with out bleeding they make different attachments for different metals I'm not saying your wrong or I'm right but just from using it. As for the shape that's not hard to duplicate if I didn't love coins I could replicate that in 20 mins lol

 

Any kind of press can make the coin stretch as long as you know what your all metals and hard material have that ability

 

But does it count if he only has one I opened. Just saying. I wanna kinda hear guesses

 

@Cheech9712

You are correct that the copper or copper plated zinc coin minted in the United States only has the word CENT. But that doesn't mean that it can't be called a Penny. It's just a nickname

As @eddiespin has shown.. Just go and roll up your Cents in the paper rolls labeled PENNIES

 

If everyone else jumped off a bridge, would you?
It's true that everyone from the mint's web designer to the people that make the rolls to the kid that sold me a coffee this morning calls it a penny.
But it doesn't make it so!

SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That, upon the said coins respectively, there shall be the following devices and legends, namely: Upon one side of each of the said coins there shall be an impression emblematic of liberty, with an inscription of the word Liberty, and the year of the coinage; and upon the reverse of each of the gold and silver coins there shall be the figure or representation of an eagle, with this inscription, “UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,” and upon the reverse of each of the copper coins, there shall be an inscription which shall express the denomination of the piece, namely, cent or half-cent, as the ease may require.
https://www.usmint.gov/learn/history/historical-documents/coinage-act-of-april-2-1792

 

Ok.. You are absolutely correct.

Attention COINTALK members..
FROM THIS POINT ON NOBODY IS ALLOWED TO CALL A US CENT A PENNY. THAT IS TOTALLY INCORRECT. IT IS NOT A PENNY AND NEVER WILL BE!

 

Ooh, ooh, do "nickels" next!

And if everyone else were jumping off a bridge every day as part of their normal travels, and not suffering any injury (because it was a three-inch drop to the ground), yep, I certainly would.

 

The new cointalk motto. How do we make this a sticky thread?

 

What if it identitys as a penny

 

None of this makes cents to me.

 

Novelty coins are made by running a cent through a roller. Something like this flattened the details and elongated the coin. Perhaps this was interrupted. And restarted opposite the original press. There are also other presses that are in many machine shops and sheet metal fabricators.

But it’s just damaged. A spender…if you can.

 

Oh, yeah! Why do they say "Penny for your thoughts?" NOT "Cents for your thoughts"??
Makes Sense, right?

 

Interesting how the US Mint refers to the lowest denomination coin in the specifications of this 2023 Proof Set as a Penny. No mention of the moniker Cent to be found. As a matter of fact, they even mention it by name as a Penny twice on this page. And this, from the horses mouth. Sorry @eddiespin

If there is any doubt about the authenticity of the picture below, here's the link to the US Mint website.

https://catalog.usmint.gov/proof-set-2023-23RG.html?cgid=coins#full-description

 

Penny,Penny,Penny!