Weird Penny Found CRH-ing: Error or PMD?

GoldenEagle

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• Dec 24, 2012

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Found this really strange penny while CRH. Not sure if it's a mint error or PMD, but I'm really leaning toward PMD since I'm not sure how exactly it would come about at the mint. There's a pit in the front, and a bunch of extra copper on the other edge of the coin.




What do you think?

 

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I can't tell from the tiny picture, and clicking on it takes me to some health video page.

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GoldenEagle said:

Found this really strange penny while CRH. Not sure if it's a mint error or PMD, but I'm really leaning toward PMD since I'm not sure how exactly it would come about at the mint. There's a pit in the front, and a bunch of extra copper on the other edge of the coin.




What do you think?

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Doesn't look like an error I have ever heard of. My guess is some kids took knife and took some copper and glued it on. But yeah that's unlikely.

 

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Would need a clearer and larger pic of obverse and reverse to tell.WOLF

 

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Looking at the larger than needed picture by that site it appears to have gone through a house fire, hot enough to have it slightly melted. if this coin was in a jar the melted part you see could be whats left of a zink penny or other metal, and the pit would have been from something hot landing on it (rock, heavy metal)

Or it was some kid in a welding class that hit it with a hammer and melted something on it.


Not an error though, just like the pennies i see that have the copper rim gone just leaving the zink.

 

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achaios said:

clicking on it takes me to some health video page.

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Yeah, popups suxs. I want to see the images on here. Not clicking a link to get hit with annoying popups, and possible malware

 

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updated with a better image

 

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PMD for sure. Somebody melted this coin causing the copper to flow to the rim. No Zinc in this one. It's all copper. WOLF