Very confused

I fairly new to collecting coins don't really know what to say about this penny, yeah a loss for words does anybody else have any ideas of what this is, obviously it's a 2013 D penny but I've never seen one turn black like this and it looks like it was smashed. it's just a tiny bit bigger than the rest of my pennies, yet the collar ring isn't smashed down with the rest ? .....

 

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That's the absolute best I could do

 

It's also a lot bigger than it should be. Think it's a fake?

 

A Texas penny with the copper plate peeled off?

 

How would that be so?

 

It's a "Texas Cent"......

The coin has had the copper plating removed,
and it was also pressed in a vise or something
similar, to enlarge it; i.e.; Texas Cent.

It's PMD - Post Minting Damage.

It did not leave the Mint like that.

Sorry.....

 

But it's really strange how it is pressed because Where the collar would go around it on both sides is still raised if it was put in a vice or something to smash it down the edges would be pushed down or slightly damaged but they are perfect

 

Not if a piece of Balsa wood was
between the vice and the coin.
.....that's how it's done.

 

A penny is placed between two pieces of leather and beaten with a hammer/mallet, or pressed in a vise, causing the coin's diameter to enlarge and its thickness to be reduced.

 

Yes, I should have said balsa wood
or leather

 

A $100 bill is sometimes referred to as a Texas penny, as well.

 

Note to self: When in Texas, don't spend any money.

Chris

 

PMD and it was probably left out in the sun/rain

 

Heat will do that to a zinc cent too.