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1945 Lincoln Penny Octagonal Shape

ChrisleyChrisley Posts: 20 ✭
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First, let me thank everyone in advance for kindly answering so many of my questions in your comments.
You guys are a real pleasure to learn from.

Ok so, I picked this one up at a public auction about 12 years ago. At first glance it looked to be the result of someone bored with a grinder









. But then again, the edges are to smooth and finished like IMO. Any ideas?

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    jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 31,903 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice pictures.

    Post Mint Damage.

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    JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,812 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice pics!

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    291fifth291fifth Posts: 23,938 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Post mint damage. Strictly spending money.

    All glory is fleeting.
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    davewesendavewesen Posts: 5,849 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I agree with your first impression ->

    Ok so, I picked this one up at a public auction about 12 years ago. At first glance it looked to be the result of someone bored with a grinder

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    JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,812 ✭✭✭✭✭

    PMD

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    HemisphericalHemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Chrisley

    “... first glance it looked to be the result of someone bored with a grinder...”

    Some say when taking a test to never change your first answer.

    Very good pics!

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    ChrisleyChrisley Posts: 20 ✭

    Thanks guys

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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I agree with PMD.....Excellent pictures. Cheers, RickO

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    JBKJBK Posts: 14,755 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have one somewhere that I kept.

    An example of old school alteration to fool an early vending machine when a coin's size was all that was measured by the machine.

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    davewesendavewesen Posts: 5,849 ✭✭✭✭✭

    so they turned it into a vending machine dime?

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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 31,550 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @davewesen said:
    so they turned it into a vending machine dime?

    Possibly, though the cut-down cents usually only worked in pay phones, which had very minimalist coin checkers. It's not like they were giving out an actual product like a Hershey bar (which I can remember buying for a nickel, and then a dime), just a few minutes of electronic time.

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    CRH4LIFECRH4LIFE Posts: 849 ✭✭✭✭

    That was at a auction!?

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    wconwcon Posts: 1 ✭

    Found a 1973 penny

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    FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 5,720 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Alteration – it did not leave the mint, looking like that at all

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    for PCGS. A 49+-Year PNG Member...A full numismatist since 1972, retired in 2022
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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yep.... Altered .. PMD... but certainly a unique find. I would keep it in my 'weird finds' box. Cheers, RickO

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    silviosisilviosi Posts: 456 ✭✭✭

    Very funny PMD.

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    GreenstangGreenstang Posts: 805 ✭✭✭✭

    You can’t have a Hexagon shaped coin produced in a round collar.
    Clearly PMD

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