Skinny Penny
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Thoughts? Skinny penny is a 1961 (I think) Lincoln cent. It weighs1.347 grams and is .03"/.762mm thick, and the diameter is the same as normal.
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Nice struck on split planchet mint error coin.
Can you educate me on how that happens?
The planchet split apart before the strike. The texture of the unstruck areas on the reverse is the tell.
Copper planchets sometimes split in half before they are struck and sometimes after the coin was struck.
Yours is the cooler error which was split in half before the strike.
So, a blank planchet split in half and then it was struck by the dies at the mint.
Neat find!
Thank you guys for sharing your knowledge. I always wondered about it.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/BxkY3fNtFUVZnSTR9
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https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNCqYiMqf5WV3upssjrtWbcDONsjsmMb6PmYmR0nz1-kfh_yoic_regKXzYvAGmxQ?key=al9GRnJJVzFlMlU2M2tSRmxoWDlVOEN5ZU5hMEl3
We called 'em 'struck on a split before striking planchet'
back in the day....
Nice error, obsolete, and actually scarcer than most of today's
error collectors realize....OP's coin is a nice example of it.
Amazing to me that this coin is a legit error. When I opened the thread and saw the pictures I thought for sure this was a “washing machine” PMD coin. If ErrorsOnCoins and Fred Weinberg hadn't posted what it was, I’d still be thinking this was a washing machine coin.
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I'm glad I delayed responding. It looked on my screen like it had been filed down.
Yep, I was in the same boat with the pmd'ers. Lol
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Neat error find. I also was thinking it was damaged.... Learned something today. Cheers, RickO
The reverse side is the inside of the split planchet,
and the obverse was the outside of the split planchet
I'd have said PMD all day long...cool coin.