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Anybody got any input on this penny


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    lcutlerlcutler Posts: 730 ✭✭✭✭

    Welcome to the forum. Impossible to tell anything from those pictures, will have to be much better.

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    bearcavebearcave Posts: 3,996 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Blurry damaged cent?

    Ken
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    OldhoopsterOldhoopster Posts: 2,930 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Difficult to see in the pics, but the coin likes like it suffered major damage. The right side looks like there is a big lump of solder or something else adhered to the surface. The tolerance for a copper cent is 2.98-3.24 grams, so foreign material would explain the extra weight

    Whatever caused the damage and extra material, it didn't happen at the mint, so its not an error

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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @srrsvette .... Welcome aboard. The pictures do not enable us to give you a detailed response. That being said, it is not a mint error... It is Post Mint Damage (PMD) of some sort. No numismatic value. Cheers, RickO

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    291fifth291fifth Posts: 25,170 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It wouldn't do well in a Coinstar machine.

    All glory is fleeting.
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    MarkKelleyMarkKelley Posts: 2,074 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @srrsvette said:
    Anybody got any input on this penny


    Yeah... RUINED!

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    TreashuntTreashunt Posts: 6,747 ✭✭✭✭✭

    abused

    Frank

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    MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 39,419 ✭✭✭✭✭

    pics on a scale?

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    ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Fantastic !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    gumby1234gumby1234 Posts: 5,901 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ErrorsOnCoins said:
    Fantastic !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Hopefully thats sarcasm LOL

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    BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,741 ✭✭✭✭✭

    How in Lord's name can we tell with those blurry pictures????????????

    Pete

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    CoinCoinsCoinCoins Posts: 698 ✭✭✭

    this thread belongs in the hall of fame

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    nwcoastnwcoast Posts: 2,902 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 15, 2021 12:20PM

    I might speculate that this penny could have been in someone’s pocket before they were struck by a train.
    May be prudent to wash your hands after handling. ;-)

    Reminds me of a great deal I got on a seemingly nice Skilsaw from the local thrift store a few years ago.
    After getting it home, and closer inspection, I noticed blood spattered all over the thing!
    Cleaned it up and used it a few times but it never felt right again.
    My imagination ran wild with stories of that saw, the blood and what ‘may’ have happened.
    Likewise- with that penny of yours.

    As Crazyhound said.
    “The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has vanished.”
    Or, something to that affect.

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    moursundmoursund Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @nwcoast said:

    Reminds me of a great deal I got on a seemingly nice Skilsaw from the local thrift store a few years ago.
    After getting it home, and closer inspection, I noticed blood spattered all over the thing!
    Cleaned it up and used it a few times but it never felt right again.
    My imagination ran wild with stories of that saw, the blood and what ‘may’ have happened.

    Nice story for Halloween... yikes!

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    BStrauss3BStrauss3 Posts: 3,882 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @CoinCoins said:
    this thread belongs in the hall of fame

    More like the hall of flame

    I think that's actually a russet potato in the OP's pictures - I recognize the dark spots as dirt.

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