Curved Lincoln Cent error coin? Added photos -

MaineJim

I got a 1995 Lincoln cent in my change the other day that was curved and kinda silver colored. Reminds me a bit of the HOF coin but not quite as curved? I'm thinking dryer coin when I first saw it but it is a bit bigger than a normal Lincoln cent. Unfortunately any attempt I made at taking a photo of it failed. Anyone have any ideas on what it might be?

Jim

Casman

Do you have batteries in it?

bsshog40

Might be a reject from one of those souvenir penny machines that flattens and curves them with a design.

luvcoins123

Here's something that may have happened. I work as an aircraft mechanic. When we have to jack up an airplane it's done from the bottom of the wings. There are jack points that are cupped and the contact point on the jack matches that cup. It keeps the airplane from slipping off the jacks. Many of the jack points under the wings are worn so there's too much play for a safe fit. Well a cent placed in between the jack pad and the wing takes the free play out. The cent conforms to the cup shape of the jack and jack pad. Don't know if that's what happened but I do know that's what it could be.

MaineJim

The cent is the same thickness as a standard lincoln cent - just curved, a bit wider and has a silver hue to it. The photos just don't show the curve and don't show it that well. I will take some photos in natural sunlight tomorrow perhaps it will show the oddity of it. I realize that without photos it is hard to identify what might be going on with it just thought someone may have seen something like this. I never saw one like this even after roll searching through a few hundred cent boxes.

Jim

MsMorrisine

Unlikely it would pass through a counting machine

Are there any obvious contacts points where pressure could have been applied to bend it?

MaineJim

No pressure points and no strange markings where it would appear to have been bent. I was wondering if the dryer coin effect ever did this to a coin. I have found those before but they are usually smaller and kinda squished inward from being banged around.

Jim

lostincoins

Even bad pics are better than none. Take one from the side, obverse and reverse and we can take a look.

GrumpyEd

Probably not a mint error.

It might be a "Texas Cent" if it looks zinc color, it might be something similar caused by something else that stretched it and took the plating off.

LCR info on Texas cent

MaineJim

I took some photos today at work - any thought on it?

Jim

MrHalfDime

That is really interesting, and unlike anything I have ever seen. Until I saw the OP's excellent photos, I was inclined to think that luvcoins123 had the answer with his airplane jack theory. But seeing the photos, there are no obvious pressure points, and the design on both obverse and reverse is not compressed or distorted. I am going to sit back and wait for the experts to chime in on this one.

MsMorrisine

Guess - heat with cold quench?

ms70

You know that magnetic process where they shrink coins? It almost looks like it would be a reverse process of that.

Or maybe it was struck with something such as a small sledge hammer with something like hard wood or hard plastic as a buffer in between?

stash

I found one of thoses a couple of years ago, the rim is metal, and the fields are made of blue plastic, about the same shape my was, still have it in the penny jar, almost looks like a board game piece

MaineJim

This one is all metal and has the same approximate weight of a normal cent. I don't own a scale but dropping it on a table it also has the same sound as other cents.

Jim

CoinZip

Nice photos.....

I know almost nothing about errors, if I were you I would seek out an error expert and get their opinion on weather its real or someones clever creation.

bsshog40

Looking at the rim with sunken edges does make it look like it was compressed somehow. I would think that if it were done with a die, then it would only be on one side. This is compressed all the way around indicating that it was done post mint. Just my guess!

coppertoning

PM Fred

GrumpyEd

I'm sure it's not a mint error.
It is one of these as in the link above.

"Texas Cent: A cent that has been hammered between pieces of (usually) leather, creating a cent with a larger-than-normal diameter. This practice is often used on copper-plated zinc cents in order to split and remove the plating. "

3keepSECRETif2rDEAD

...that baby must have been owned by a MLB Hall of Fame member

Erik

FredWeinberg

PMD.

MaineJim

Fred do you believe it is a Texas Coin as described by GrumpEd? That would make sense but the curved part seemed different then was described in the link.

Jim

ms70

<< <i>PMD. >>



But how?

derryb

Hall of Lincoln baseball coin.

PMD. the consistency of the strike indicates it was struck on a flat planchet. Coin was bent after it left the mint. Number of ways to bend a flat coin.

JazzmanJAB

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<< <i>PMD. >>



But how? >>




Perhaps This Way

silverpop

it's PMD and there are so many ways to PMD a coin it's not funny

DMWJR

My guess it was in a fire, and then recovered.

errormaven

It looks like a "Texas cent" that was chemically de-plated and then used in some sort of encasement. That's a long-winded way of saying "post-strike damage".

ricko

No doubt PMD, but I would sure like to know how it was done..... Cheers, RickO

WoodenJefferson

At one time it might have been 'pressed' into something decorative/ornamental and then crudely pressed out bending the coin. It also may have been coated with acrylic and that was removed, maybe in a fire, who knows.

MsMorrisine

<< <i>Guess - heat with cold quench? >>



Can't make one larger this way


The obverse looks off. Like a counterfeit.

I'm going to try beating one between something pliable but tough.