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Coinloin
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I have this penny which appears to be in a nickel die, what is something like this worth and is it common?
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Coinloin
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Welcome and great first post. Need better pics and more information if you can. What does the larger penny weigh? What is it's diameter? Is the larger one nickel or copper? Is the thickness on par with another penny or the nickel? Hmmmmmm, just too many questions.
bob
The larger penny weighs 2.5, the diameter is same as nickel, its copper on obverse and zinc on reverse, the thickness is same as penny, and its a 1993D
Thank you for the photos, and the answers with the weight.
2.5 g is the correct weight for a one cent planchet of 1993.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_(United_States_coin)
Five cent nickel planchet is 5 g.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_(United_States_coin)
So apparently, your 1993-D is likely on a regular one cent planchet, but is wider than it should be.
This could happen if the collar was missing or malfunctioned when it was struck, so it spread out when struck.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mint-made_errors#Broadstrike
Here is a broadstrike error similar to yours, with opening bid $5 on ebay:
https://ebay.com/itm/2000-ALMOST-NICKEL-SIZE-OFF-CENTER-BROADSTRIKE-LINCOLN-CENT-MINT-ERROR-3161-/391955184648
Here's another, with opening bid $0.99:
https://ebay.com/itm/1999-Broadstruck-Lincoln-Cent-Off-Center-Mint-Error-See-Pictures/192421065724
It's a cool error, but quite a few have been found, so the value is limited.
Thank you very much for the input i greatly appreciate it and have learned from it! Thank you again
@Coinloin... Welcome aboard.... great first post and interesting find. Cheers, RickO
Not to throw a monkey wrench into the diagnosis, but that oversized cent does not appear to be broadstruck to my untrained eye. The design goes right to the edges as with a normal coin (although the edge does look a little weird in one photo).
Maybe a subtle squeeze job where it pressed between two boards, for example, to expand its diameter without ruining the design? Or heat?
I've heard these called "Texas Cents" that are, as @JBK mentioned, the result of a squeeze job.
Welcome aboard.
Thinking outside the box here, if a cent planchet were to be mixed in with nickel planchets, the error cent (zinc planchet) would have Jefferson/Monticello, right? A large oversized cent planchet or nickel planchet would not fit into the coining chamber of the cent press and either be miss-struck or rejected, right? So I do not know what you have here.
"Keep your malarkey filter in good operating order" -Walter Breen
...or a novelty piece from pressed out cents and false dies. ?
That coin makes no "Cents" to me..........just a Nickel for my thoughts.
Pete
The coin pictured in the upper left is
a damaged and altered cent.
It's had the copper plating removed,
and it's been enlarged by pressing
it, probably in a vise, between a softer
material than the vise or the coin.
It could be called a Texas Cent, although
I've seen much larger diameter 'Texan'
altered cents (and other denoms)
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Here are a couple others i found a 1994D and 1997D did they mean to make these and what are they worth? Please and thank you!
The damage to these last 2 coins is what happens when a post-1982 US one cent is on the ground, gets some good scrapes, and gets wet. The scrapes cut through the thin protective copper layer and expose the zinc.
Zinc deteriorates quickly when wet, which leaves missing parts of the rim, deep pits, etc.
They are worth 1 cent each, although some people might not want to take a coin that appears damaged.
I wish they'd quit minting these post 1982 poisonous things. Mint cents in the old alloy in proof for collectors and do away with the cent for circulation.
Thank you all this info is greatly appreciated my hobby has been rocks and i barely took up coins i have so many i dont know what they are worth just like these ones so greatly appreciate experience coin collectors input