1972 Lincoln cent 2.5 g

Lyndag

Pardon the ugly coin but this 1972 Lincoln appears to have been done over another coin that weighed 2.5 g. Has anyone ever seen or came across anything similar. Thanks

ifthevamzarockin

The missing weight is from corrosion. Might be metal detector find???

mannie gray

@ifthevamzarockin said:
The missing weight is from corrosion. Might be metal detector find???

I agree. The low weight is from corrosion and/or acid.
Likely just corroded.

291fifth

Just another corroded cent. No numismatic value.

grip

Salt water will do it.

ricko

I agree...corrosion is the culprit.....Cheers, RickO

Lyndag

Thanks guys. Appreciate the opinions. I’m holding out a little hope that I have a coin minted over another. The picture looks bad but in my hand not so much. It still has the slick and a little luster to the naked eye. Odd how it lost exactly enough weight to make it 2.5. Maybe I’ll post something about my actual findings when I return home from my travels.

jmlanzaf

@Lyndag said:
Thanks guys. Appreciate the opinions. I’m holding out a little hope that I have a coin minted over another. The picture looks bad but in my hand not so much. It still has the slick and a little luster to the naked eye. Odd how it lost exactly enough weight to make it 2.5. Maybe I’ll post something about my actual findings when I return home from my travels.

If you put a cent in nitric acid, it will dissolve the surface away. Initially, very uniformly, eventually it gets a little grainy as that one appears to be.

I'm not sure why you are obsessing over 2.5 g. 2.5g is exactly as likely as 2.671 g, it's just a number. What planchet weighs exactly 2.5 g that you think this was struck over? 2.5 g as a wrong planchet cent isn't possible 10 years before they introduced that. Is there a foreign coin you are thinking of?