EagleDown
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- May 13, 2010
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Maybe some one has seen something like this.
Every so often, I find that I'm collecting too many pennies in my pocket. So, I have a qt. size jar on my dresser. Periodically, I separate the pennies from my pocket change and dump them in this jar. Yesterday, I was looking through the pennies from my pocket and noticed that I had recieved several that were prior to 1983. I mentioned to my helper; "I need to separate the copper pennies from all of the clad pennies". He didn't have much to do, so he volunteered to separate them for me. A little later, he came into my office and asked me if I had seen "this penny".
I remembered seeing it about a year ago when I dropped it in the jar, but at the time I didn't pay much attention to it. "Shaggy" (my friend,) handed it to me and since I had been looking at pennies through my eye loupe and handling them, I immediately noticed that it was heavier than what I had been messing with. So, I weighed a couple of regular pennies, they were 2.5gr each. Then I weighed this weird one and it weighed 3.1gr. I held a regular one against it and found that the diameter seems the same, but when I looked at them on edge, it was obvious that the weird penny was thicker than the other.
Well, the pictures are here. I'd like to hear what you think. Incidently, granted, I only have a 5X eye loupe, but I can see no line around the edges where two planchets might have been pressed together. But, my eyes are not what they use to be.
Every so often, I find that I'm collecting too many pennies in my pocket. So, I have a qt. size jar on my dresser. Periodically, I separate the pennies from my pocket change and dump them in this jar. Yesterday, I was looking through the pennies from my pocket and noticed that I had recieved several that were prior to 1983. I mentioned to my helper; "I need to separate the copper pennies from all of the clad pennies". He didn't have much to do, so he volunteered to separate them for me. A little later, he came into my office and asked me if I had seen "this penny".
I remembered seeing it about a year ago when I dropped it in the jar, but at the time I didn't pay much attention to it. "Shaggy" (my friend,) handed it to me and since I had been looking at pennies through my eye loupe and handling them, I immediately noticed that it was heavier than what I had been messing with. So, I weighed a couple of regular pennies, they were 2.5gr each. Then I weighed this weird one and it weighed 3.1gr. I held a regular one against it and found that the diameter seems the same, but when I looked at them on edge, it was obvious that the weird penny was thicker than the other.
Well, the pictures are here. I'd like to hear what you think. Incidently, granted, I only have a 5X eye loupe, but I can see no line around the edges where two planchets might have been pressed together. But, my eyes are not what they use to be.