How and why would you shave off the back of a penny?
Lakesammman
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You would think the kerf alone would destroy the coin! 
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What does it weigh? Is it possible that two stuck together planchets made it into the coining press? Could there be a second coin with a struck reverse and a blank obverse?
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That's been machined, not a uniface strike.
You'd be surprised what people do to their coins.
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Did it fall into the rogaine pill tank and grow hair?
Roger - it's the birthmark VAM.
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The weight is key.
I have a 1942 [P] cent that looks just like that.
Mine is full weight so I believe the reverse strike was intercepted by a blank planchet.
This coin weighs exactly 3.11 grams:
Isn't that a double die? Oh, sorry ... wrong thread.
See http://www.doubledimes.com for a free online reference for US twenty-cent pieces
Possibly a never completed love token??
How? With a belt sander.
Why? As a ten year old did I really need a reason? In any case, I was trying to make a love token type of thing.
Dan:
Yours looks like a blank planchet with an upset rim - pretty cool.
I don't think two planchets can seat themselves perfectly in the collar Dan...can they?
If this is due to 2 planchets being in the collar at the same time, that would man that the obv die was the lower die, correct? Otherwise the 2nd/top coin would be above the collar and would show expansion?
Besides youthful experimentation and love token frolicking, people have also been known to try and modify the cents to fool transport turnstiles.
The one I have was reduced in diameter and was ground down on both sides (to fall in the dime slot). Seems like more trouble just to plane off one side?
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I’m shocked and surprised that CoinSide7 didn’t find this in his change
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Cool, thanks for sharing !!!
The juvenile delinquents in Brighton ,CO made tons of these around 74. The pay phone was used as a go/no-go testing device. If the coin made a dial tone, pressing down the receiver lever would return said coin. The end user of these modified cents were the local pinball machines. Adults should have never let teens have access to a bench grinder. LOL
I can see it now.
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Yours is not like his. Yours is not flat. The "OPSI" marks are still showing and not struck out. Oops! OPSI= Original Planchet Surface Imperfections. Now forget you saw that...:)
Sometimes guys do crazy shit when the boss is away and they have power tools . . .
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I did this as a kid in the 1950's. Next was to reduce the diameter so as to work as a dime in a candy, pop, or ice cream machine. Nah, not pops as those were a nickel. Nah, not candy a those were 3 cents or a nickel. But, yes for ice cream machines.
bob
So, when are we going to get the weight of this coin?
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It actually looks pretty easy to face a metal disk. Several YouTube videos (I watch a channel called Clickspring).
Basically you superglue the cent to the arbor (the spinning metal part) and approach it with a gouge until you just take off the surface and then move it into the center.
A tiny bit of heat from a torch and the metal disk pops off.
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I think it about time that PCGS shows their market leadership and create registry sets and grading for error coins........Let them certify the authenticity for error coins, for a significant premium, of course.
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The OP coin has been altered... I have seen a couple of these years ago... used for phone calls and other vending machines. Cheers, RickO
Shaved-engraved. Who knows why ?
I came across this the other day as a "silver dollar blank". I think it was meant as silver-dollar not a silver dollar. Think it's an Ike, pretty sure it's not a fake. 30 or so years ago. Doesn't look like someone ground it down. No reeding.
could be thats where he found it
To see how it responds to water after it's been worn down:
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Must have started making a love token, but the process took longer than the love.
Maybe trying to make one of these??
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Lakesammman----Did you ever weigh your cent?
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As mentioned a sander would remove it.
Using sanding pads made for wood on metal also polishes without looking bright.
No, I don't have a scale that accurate.