Just dumbfounded about this penny!!!!!! Please help.

DonVitoD · Apr 17, 2014

Found this smooth almost seems acryliced or plastic over coin. Didn't really think about til I was going through my finds. I can definately see the impression of Abe on it. It's a little smaller than a penny though. I don't know, should I try to peel off the plastic or acrylic? It also appears to be a wheat.

nscrcr8z · Apr 17, 2014

Maybe the aliens encapsulated it!! :-)

Strange

Paper · Apr 17, 2014

Pic of the penny next to a real penny? Weird find... I wouldn't try peeling the plastic off.

DonVitoD · Apr 17, 2014

Here is the weird penny next to a normal penny.

Paper · Apr 17, 2014

I did some googling and apparently coin shrinking is a thing.

http://www.capturedlightning.com/frames/shrinkergallery.html

DonVitoD · Apr 17, 2014

I don't think it was shrunk, it was found at an old site not far from another wheat. Do you think it could be some sort of error during minting process?

Stevo · Apr 17, 2014

I would peel off the plastic. There can't be much to lose and more to learn. Its an odd "coin", for sure.

Detector Nut · Apr 17, 2014

Cool!

Dirtfishn350 · Apr 17, 2014

Interesting, very cool find!

CopyTech99 · Apr 17, 2014

Both sides have coating ??

ScubaDetective · Apr 17, 2014

I am guessing jewlery of some sort. It probably isn't a real penny. UNLESS someone filed or cut it down all the way around somehow.

Mike breezy · Apr 17, 2014

Very cool, I wouldn't peel it open if it was mine..

LordOfTheZincs · Apr 17, 2014

I'm going with a coin that was in a Lexan protector of some sort and was in a fire? Shrinking Lexan + real hot penny = shrunk, plastic covered penny? :?:

Mike breezy · Apr 17, 2014

Is the whole thing covered? It looks like just the face in the pics.

Cylon_Detector · Apr 17, 2014

Here's a real stab in the dark, but like ScubaDetector said, I'd guess it was a "penny" from a girl's old pair of penny loafers. Sometimes they'd stick real pennies in them, but I bet some were manufactured with a "real" penny included. How old were the other coins from the site?

pescadore · Apr 17, 2014

I guess it just depends on how curious you are. I would probably leave it that way and show it to some folks in coin shops etc. just as a novelty if nothing else. I'm thinking jewelry item of some sort.

DonVitoD · Apr 17, 2014

It's definately metal, and enclosed all around. Coins at this site have ranged from mostly the the 40s, but I have gotten some deeper ones that are from the teens and 20s. It's thin, as someone cut the outer edge off.

CopyTech99 · Apr 17, 2014

I love it, leave as is.

Have a shot of reverse ??

DonVitoD · Apr 17, 2014

Here's the back

CopyTech99 · Apr 17, 2014

Keeper.

Awesome exposed rim.

Just dumbfounded about this penny!!!!!! Please help.

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