MiddenMonster
Bronze Member
Is there anything "embedded" in coins to mark them?
This may be somewhat off-topic, but when I was about 13 a kid at school gave me a penny that had a Masonic symbol on one side of Lincoln's neck (I forgot which side). He told me all pennys had this, and it could be exposed by firing a .22 short at the back of the penny to get the symbol to pop out. The penny he gave me in fact, had what looked like a .22 indentation on the back of the coin. The bulge was about 3/32" out from flat. At the time I believed him, and used to balance pennys on the barrell of a high-powered BB gun to see if I could replicate it. I couldn't. Over time I concluded that it was a penny that someone had used a punch to stamp it out, but that still doesn't explain the indentation on the back. The thread about the two-headed nickel revived the memory. Anyone know about any of this Masonic stuff?-
This may be somewhat off-topic, but when I was about 13 a kid at school gave me a penny that had a Masonic symbol on one side of Lincoln's neck (I forgot which side). He told me all pennys had this, and it could be exposed by firing a .22 short at the back of the penny to get the symbol to pop out. The penny he gave me in fact, had what looked like a .22 indentation on the back of the coin. The bulge was about 3/32" out from flat. At the time I believed him, and used to balance pennys on the barrell of a high-powered BB gun to see if I could replicate it. I couldn't. Over time I concluded that it was a penny that someone had used a punch to stamp it out, but that still doesn't explain the indentation on the back. The thread about the two-headed nickel revived the memory. Anyone know about any of this Masonic stuff?-
