tumbled my coins/found this???

[bob.oz]

[attachment 220106 Picture146.jpg]Never even thought about putting found change in a tumbler to clean it up, especially those zinc cents.not until i started reading this forum,same with the paper clip ring display thing.

look at this penny/do not know if its a mint error or two Penny's that were stuck together/or what????
its hard to see ,but that's the back of a penny on his face/back has extra edge and lettering


I use dish soap,water,and small ball bearings in a Harbor Freights tumbler.(garage sale $5 bucks)

 

[GTzer]

Too hard to tell from the photo. Cool find if it is.
Use the same tumbler. Try a little white vinegar.

 

[hotrod53]

Not sure what we're looking at, but it peaks my curiosity.

 

[bob.oz]

this pic gives a better look....kinda

 

[bob.oz]

n/t

 

[nuggetripper]

nice find looks like a double strike penny,quater.Very cool

 

[Old Longhair]

Pretty wild looking!

Try aquarium gravel in your tumbler.
And never mix coin types in the tumbler.

 

[cajintex]

I really need to get me a tumbler. I wouldn't have thought you could do that. Also, i just figured ALL coins that are crusty are just clad, and no good. Like I said.......I really need to get me a tumbler. LOL !!

 

[hotrod53]

Looking closer, I'm wondering if you found 2 pennies stacked in the same hole, that malformation looks like the Lincoln Memorial. I'm thinking that somehow the clad got fused while in the ground, that or it is corrosion in the shape of what it was tight up against on another penny??? It looks like there is writing in the lump but I can't read it if there is.

 

[bob.oz]

i thought that too,so Ive been sorting through that batch looking for one that is missing part of the memorial with E pluribus unum missing,that's on there to,pic doesn't show it.But it also has a faint impression of the back of a penny upside down on the back,and no copper edge all zinc..maybe stuck between two?////

 

[nuggetripper]

second pic does show it better at first it looked very different,it does look like a new penny struck wonder if some one at the mint was trying to make a rare strike?

 

[hotrod53]

I'm thinking if it were a double strike, the impression would be pushed into Abe's head, this one appears to be pertruding from Abe's head.

 

[bob.oz]

Getting better with magnifying glass in front of lens/still stumped/ makes sense because lettering is reveresed.

 

[hotrod53]

Reversed writing lends itself to being up against another coin and it somehow being transposed onto your coin. Man that's freaky, can't say that I ever saw that hapen before.