Is this a train track cent?

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eyesopen
eyesopen Posts: 22 ✭✭
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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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  • Greenstang
    Greenstang Posts: 1,645 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 14, 2024 1:50PM
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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.

  • dcarr
    dcarr Posts: 10,255 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 14, 2024 2:13PM
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    I think it is an acid-eroded coin and/or flattened via mechanical abrasion.

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  • World67
    World67 Posts: 13,098 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Dryer coin.

  • lkenefic
    lkenefic Posts: 9,518 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 14, 2024 2:35PM
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    No.... train track coins are flattened like the ones that @OAKSTAR posted... I created a number of these as a kid...

    Edited for punctuation...

    Collecting: Dansco 7070; Middle Date Large Cents (VF-AU); Box of 20;

    Successful BST transactions with: SilverEagles92; Ahrensdad; Smitty; GregHansen; Lablade; Mercury10c; copperflopper; whatsup; KISHU1; scrapman1077, crispy, canadanz, smallchange, robkool, Mission16, ranshdow, ibzman350, Fallguy, Collectorcoins, SurfinxHI, jwitten, Walkerguy21D, dsessom.
  • eyesopen
    eyesopen Posts: 22 ✭✭
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    same size as a regular cent but much thinner. Thanks All!

  • OAKSTAR
    OAKSTAR Posts: 8,770 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @lkenefic said:
    No train track coins are flattened like the ones that @OAKSTAR posted... I created a number of these as a kid...

    Wanta bet?

    https://www.capecentralhigh.com/perry-county/coins-on-the-train-track/

    Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )

  • JBK
    JBK Posts: 17,860 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @OAKSTAR said:

    @lkenefic said:
    No train track coins are flattened like the ones that @OAKSTAR posted... I created a number of these as a kid...

    Wanta bet?

    https://www.capecentralhigh.com/perry-county/coins-on-the-train-track/

    I assume he missed a comma, as in "No, train track coins are flattened....".

  • lkenefic
    lkenefic Posts: 9,518 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Sorry about that... missing punctuation!

    Every coin I put on a train track looks like the ones that @OAKSTAR posted.

    Collecting: Dansco 7070; Middle Date Large Cents (VF-AU); Box of 20;

    Successful BST transactions with: SilverEagles92; Ahrensdad; Smitty; GregHansen; Lablade; Mercury10c; copperflopper; whatsup; KISHU1; scrapman1077, crispy, canadanz, smallchange, robkool, Mission16, ranshdow, ibzman350, Fallguy, Collectorcoins, SurfinxHI, jwitten, Walkerguy21D, dsessom.
  • OAKSTAR
    OAKSTAR Posts: 8,770 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @JBK said:

    @OAKSTAR said:

    @lkenefic said:
    No train track coins are flattened like the ones that @OAKSTAR posted... I created a number of these as a kid...

    Wanta bet?

    https://www.capecentralhigh.com/perry-county/coins-on-the-train-track/

    I assume he missed a comma, as in "No, train track coins are flattened....".

    I think it would be a period, not a comma. 😉 But I'm no English major! 🤣 👍

    Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )

  • lkenefic
    lkenefic Posts: 9,518 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @OAKSTAR said:

    @JBK said:

    @OAKSTAR said:

    @lkenefic said:
    No train track coins are flattened like the ones that @OAKSTAR posted... I created a number of these as a kid...

    Wanta bet?

    https://www.capecentralhigh.com/perry-county/coins-on-the-train-track/

    I assume he missed a comma, as in "No, train track coins are flattened....".

    I think it would be a period, not a comma. 😉 But I'm no English major! 🤣 👍

    I added four periods in my edit... hedging my bets...

    Collecting: Dansco 7070; Middle Date Large Cents (VF-AU); Box of 20;

    Successful BST transactions with: SilverEagles92; Ahrensdad; Smitty; GregHansen; Lablade; Mercury10c; copperflopper; whatsup; KISHU1; scrapman1077, crispy, canadanz, smallchange, robkool, Mission16, ranshdow, ibzman350, Fallguy, Collectorcoins, SurfinxHI, jwitten, Walkerguy21D, dsessom.
  • OAKSTAR
    OAKSTAR Posts: 8,770 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @dcarr said:
    I think it is an acid-eroded coin and/or flattened via mechanical abrasion.

    Makes me wonder Dan the difference in trains weight and pressure on coins compared to your coin press minting machines?

    Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )

  • johnny9434
    johnny9434 Posts: 34,049 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 14, 2024 3:09PM
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    I'd say the engine alone would do that, jmo. Good question to

  • Jacques_Loungecoque
    Jacques_Loungecoque Posts: 733 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @lkenefic said:
    No.... train track coins are flattened like the ones that @OAKSTAR posted... I created a number of these as a kid...

    Edited for punctuation...

    Same here. My father encouraged us while waiting for grandma at the Amtrak station. Different world even just 30 years ago.

    Having fun while switching things up and focusing on a next level PCGS slabbed 1950+ type set, while still looking for great examples for the 7070.

  • lkenefic
    lkenefic Posts: 9,518 ✭✭✭✭✭
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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".

    Collecting: Dansco 7070; Middle Date Large Cents (VF-AU); Box of 20;

    Successful BST transactions with: SilverEagles92; Ahrensdad; Smitty; GregHansen; Lablade; Mercury10c; copperflopper; whatsup; KISHU1; scrapman1077, crispy, canadanz, smallchange, robkool, Mission16, ranshdow, ibzman350, Fallguy, Collectorcoins, SurfinxHI, jwitten, Walkerguy21D, dsessom.
  • crazyhounddog
    crazyhounddog Posts: 14,250 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I’d say a train track cent wouldn’t be any thicker than .015, or, 1/64 of an inch.

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  • jesbroken
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    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.
    Jim


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  • coinkat
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    Maybe Thomas the Tank Engine...

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  • Pghpete
    Pghpete Posts: 209 ✭✭✭
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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.

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