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Is this a train track cent?
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Noticed a similar picture in another thread. It is very thin. Weight is 2.9g. Can't make out the date other than 196? D mint mark.
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It looks more like a dryer coin. Put it on top of another cent and see if the diameter is smaller.
A train track cent would be completely flattened.
No. These would be coins flattened by trains.
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I think it is an acid-eroded coin and/or flattened via mechanical abrasion.
Dryer coin.
No.... train track coins are flattened like the ones that @OAKSTAR posted... I created a number of these as a kid...
Edited for punctuation...
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same size as a regular cent but much thinner. Thanks All!
Wanta bet?
https://www.capecentralhigh.com/perry-county/coins-on-the-train-track/
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I assume he missed a comma, as in "No, train track coins are flattened....".
Sorry about that... missing punctuation!
Every coin I put on a train track looks like the ones that @OAKSTAR posted.
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I think it would be a period, not a comma. 😉 But I'm no English major! 🤣 👍
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I added four periods in my edit... hedging my bets...
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Makes me wonder Dan the difference in trains weight and pressure on coins compared to your coin press minting machines?
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I'd say the engine alone would do that, jmo. Good question to
Same here. My father encouraged us while waiting for grandma at the Amtrak station. Different world even just 30 years ago.
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Yeah, closer to 60 years in my case! The train came through slowly at a crossing about 4 or 5 blocks away. You never knew how many cars would be in tow but more cars meant smaller chance of recovering your "investment".
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I’d say a train track cent wouldn’t be any thicker than .015, or, 1/64 of an inch.
Never measured one, but did quite a few 70 years ago, as we had train tracks down the road across from the only store and gas station for 10 miles or more. Men out in front of the store would throw us a penny as the train was coming and yell "on the track, quick" and we flew.
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Maybe Thomas the Tank Engine...
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While this is sort of related to the OPs post - As a young lad, not knowing important dates and what years specific coins were minted, I came across a box of foreign and old U.S. coins; all of which had problems. One of those coins was a Walker that was indeed run over by a train. My big brother (he's a real jokester) told me that the Walker was valuable because President Lincoln's funeral train ran through Pittsburgh on the way to Illinois, and that one of our descendants placed that Walker on the track before the train went by. Sounded good to me! I still have it somewhere.