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Fake penny? Damaged penny?

It’s smaller than a regular penny. Lighter too. It’s almost like it was painted and it chipped off. It so flat, are coins not stamped anymore? Idk. I don’t know anything about all of this.

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  • emeraldATVemeraldATV Posts: 3,959 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It looks to as if some rubbed against a ruff surface
    thus loosing the stamped or raised part of the coin.
    If its cool to you, save it for luck.
    You went this far right?

  • JBKJBK Posts: 14,637 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Probably caught in a washing machine or other machine. Edges and surfaces ground away. Lots of exposed zinc.

  • HemisphericalHemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Hard to tell blurry pics. Edges do look filed/ground down. Looks like it was glued to paper-something and then ripped off. Or it was filed/sanded down.

    Probably NOT worth one cent; unless you get a cashier not paying attention.

    Modern cents have a zinc core with thin layer of copper on the outside. Once the zinc is exposed it will corrode quickly.

  • OldhoopsterOldhoopster Posts: 2,930 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The copper plating was removed with something abrasive like sandpaper and the zinc core is exposed. It's a damaged coin, not an error

    Member of the ANA since 1982
  • BillDugan1959BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @JBK said:
    Probably caught in a washing machine or other machine. Edges and surfaces ground away. Lots of exposed zinc.

    I believe this is most likely. Washing machine/dryer coin. It is post-mint damage.

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