What happened to this 1992 penny. I’ve never seen a rim this wide?
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Why not a photo of the obverse or reverse also?
You will find it ever so slightly undersized due to being rolled.
Damaged it’s been tapped on the edges
U can not see the Obverse and reverse picture
Tapped, spooned, roll pressed, and someone just had too much time playing with those cents. Abe got a “splitting” headache (obverse ‘93) from so much post mint damage.
Oh yeah 93’. I don’t know why I put 92’🙃. Maybe I might be getting a splitting head from looking at so many coins.🤔😎 I’m going on 39. Never payed much attention to coins until here recently. But slowly learning more about old coins as much as of the errors at the same time. It’s like Wow! What?
I see it now, thx. Not much clues there but surely a coin that had force applied to the edge to give that effect.
Example. Many others.
It looks to me like it was an encased cent, and has been removed from the case.
i don't see any evidence of spooning by hand. Perhaps it can be done with a machine? Or, maybe your cent was caught in something that did that, like the bottom of a washer or such?
bob
May’ve originally been compressed in center of a good luck type token. I recall seeing pennies with larger aluminum surrounds.
It does look like a formerly encased cent... we have seen them here before. Cheers, RickO
Fred, take a look at the last of the four pictures at the top. Any chance that is a partial collar strike?
Tell him that last picture doesn’t quite look right for a partial collar strike– Might need another photo or two