Is there any way a Lincoln Cent's weight could fall .8 gr. (3.1 - 2.3) naturally? No date available
emeraldATV
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The only thiing I can think of is if it's a 1943 bronze.
Another attrabute is it seems to have dryed grease through out its surface.
Suggestions anyone ?
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How would the weight indicate a 1943 bronze cent? A 1943 bronze would weigh the same amount as any other year bronze cent.
He's baaack....
Why are all of the rarities you discover in such bad shape?
Give it an acetone soak for the grease.... Likely just a very worn cent. Cheers, RickO
Corrosion is an amazing process
Acid ate some of the metal away?
It's a poor man's penny.
Had to take some liberties in circulating it. lol
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“Environmental damage” that is.
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Corrosion can drop the weight all the way to zero if you let it.
Have you met @RobertLahti ?
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At what point is it no longer a penny? Somewhere between one molecule and 1 gram?
When you can't see the denomination
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Thanks for those pearls. PS she's been soaking in olive oil for a spell and its just going to take a little more time to surrender.
V.D.B. is also in Question
Your right...even my 55's are Dinged.
When you can't see the denomination> @emeraldATV said:
That's a waste of perfectly good olive oil.
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"That's a waste of perfectly good olive oil."
And now one hoagie goes wit-out.
Now here is where we stand.
Weight- 2.3
Bronze
Size normal.
Mic. the edge looks weak but sturdy enough to hold a letter. (ABC)
Strike was produced through grease on both the obverse and reverse and impacted like cookie dough cement.
Double strike way off (1/8 in.) to the west on the reverse is being very shy as she sits in her mud bath.
As for a possible V.D.B. , ..Very Dim Bite so don't go there yet.
Again she's shy. I'm leaning towards a 1910 reveal.
New photo's will help..right. In time.
Based on some comments below, may I ask if you find some of these coins metal detecting?
I'm being serious because I do metal detect and I've found LOTS of coins in lots of different conditions.
A couple of years ago my brother and I got to hunt a once IVY League golf course. All the coins that we found anywhere around what would have been the golfing area were really in bad shape, conclusion was years of Fertilizer and Chemicals eat away at the coppers, silver were fine.
Later I'll go through my WORSE ground found Lincolns and weight one and see how much weight its lost.
"I Prefer Dangerous Freedom Over Peaceful Slavery"
Thomas Jefferson!
Okay, here is what I came up with.
and I've been pulling coins out of the ground sense around 1981
An unknown year Lincoln Wheat Cent!
If much more of this penny was gone you couldn't tell for sure if it was a penny, US or other wise.
This penny has sever corrosion, it was left in circulation for WAY to many years before it got lost judging by it wear.
I get where your coming from with the thoughts of it being a Lincoln cent, its odd weight, then maybe the only Lincoln cent that it could be is some rare and valuable even without knowing the date!
Believe me over the years and with my childhood bucket list of coins I've pulled MANY of coins out of the ground with dreams if this one being the ONE! Hasn't happen yet
Here is my results!
The Coin!
Drum Roll Please!
So this would lead me to thinking that you might want to take some dial calipers and measure the coin.
Now If I had your coin here I could sweep over it with my metal detector and tell you if the metal is the right conductivity range for a Lincoln penny, or other alloy like a Lincoln looking token or other??
"I Prefer Dangerous Freedom Over Peaceful Slavery"
Thomas Jefferson!
Hey Mark.
This was found in a roll during a search for kicks as it was my first purchase of a cent box. I was bored and needed a hobby.
The bank was closing its doors which was 2 doors down from where I deliver pizza out of.
I'm kinda retired after 45 years of offset printing.
I'm on a small budget without a pension and kids in high school. I also at one time metal detected found a few musket balls also. I bought a 25.00 football shape detector.
The 3 or 4 boxes sitting here are like the mints trash thrown into circulation or make ready.
Another way is grab a magnet and do a ultra sound like motion through your inventory.
When the magnet hits..it scares the crap out of ya.
LOL
Lots of detectorist recycles there coins (cash them in) at banks, or coin star machines.
I find them all the time in change
Now the Stink-en Zinc-ons explode in VERY short order even on top of the ground and the only thing you can do with them is put them in the trash. Lots of people try to discriminate them out, but there is SO many of them that leaving them means you could be leaving some good beneath them, they really are a garbage coin outside of a collectors album.
"I Prefer Dangerous Freedom Over Peaceful Slavery"
Thomas Jefferson!
Experimental calibrating strike.
What ?
Alice, get me my luge.
How is this for a reference ? Circumference.
43 steel cent.
The (?) dime. I call it the no sht dime.
The 2.3 wt cent in question.
Technically, this is as much a coin collection as any other.. 🙂
Gives me a chuckle, in the larger scheme, to realize that my coins are closer on the spectrum to the emerald atv collection than, say, the TDN set 😀
All three weigh the same.
All three weigh the same.
All three weigh the same.
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The coin in question
is the same size as a normal every day dime. ( its a cent)
Also the cookie dough should have weight right ?
Dieting in lake olive like an onion in a box of chocolate. lol
The no sht dime
is the same size as the steel or should I say a normal every day cent. (a little too much pressure ?}
I don't think you give yourself enough credit. A Chuck E. Cheese token is closer to the TDN collection than to the 3 coins in this thread.
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This.
I hate typing.
And in this photo, wearing the enviormental tarnish color (aqua) boxers, weighing in at, a stepping. 5.0 gr. with a team of 4,
" Lets get ready to rumble".
5 cent coin.