1947 No Reverse Cent?

Azurescens

Found this earlier this morning. Weighs in at 2.8644g.

It's just a novelty coin right? Front is rainbow toned copper back is dirty bronze.

What kind of tool would've done this? I've worked with some metals in a few trades and chemicals in another. To me it looks like acid pitting.

TomB

It's been planed off and the larger gouges I see do not look like pitting, but in-hand who knows what you might see.

topstuf

Azurescens

LOL

If you look very carefully, you'll see the Virgin Mary. 80k starting bid on ebay.

It's kind of neat I under why someone did this. It's the poorest form of doctoring.

Actually I'm starting to even think someone may have used this for (unsafely) patching a fuse in their electric box. Since copper coins served as conductors, people would stick them in instead of getting repaired. Maybe that explains the gouges.

I've seen these before, and taken some out of boxes but usually they're in ok shape, the design doesn't change much, but everyone always used a crappy penny. Maybe they filed it down to fit into a fuse box?

The wheats that I found out of these had amazing greens and blues after cleaning off burns. I wonder what kind of old junk and chemicals were in the dusty air of a late 19th century home. A lot of houses burned down because of this.

A neat coin nonetheless. And I'm super pissed I didn't keep the Indian cents and wheats I found in those electrical boxes those few years. I bet people would've paid moon money for how freaking weird these things were.

ricko

Reverse appears to have been ground (or planed as TomB said) off.... then the coin was lost on a street or parking lot, reverse down, and received the gouges.... Cheers, RickO

sellitstore

Actually the damage looks more consistent with a jabbing by a sharp object, perhaps a knife.

pennyannie

Modern half cent