Your Opinions on My Strange Jeff 5c

[Golden Oldie]

I have posted this coin before but with scanned images. Have new camera with super macro now.

I showed this coin to a dealer at a local show and he said he couldn't identify the medal. His opinion was it was struck on a foreign coin planchet. Here are several picts of coin at different angles and lighting. What do you all think about it? Thanks.

[DWLange]

If it weighs 3.1 grams, it is probably struck on a cent planchet.

[physics-fan3.14]

Weigh it, and tell us how much it weighs. We can go from there.

[Coindude]

I agree, looks smaller than a nickel... diameter. Weigh it as it has the right color for a cent planchet. If it is, then you got a good score there.

[bsshog40]

Wouldn't it also be noticibly thinner if on a cent planchet? Also if a cent planchet, I think it would have taken more of the lettering off considering half the Jeff still has rim. This also looks to have some enviromental damage so Can't really go by the coloring. Maybe paRt of the planchet was chipped??? Just guessing!!

[WoodenJefferson]

WOW! My first thought was "electroplated" but it is smaller than the nickel planchet, hence the offset nature.

 

The only thing that bothers me is the strike. I don't think you'd get that high of a relief strike off a cent planchet, but then again, the press is set up for nickel composition and not copper, but then there's the stand off on the dies so a clash does not happen.

 

I'm puzzled?

[halfpint]

 

........i agree with dwlange (thumbs u

[Golden Oldie]

I forgot to mention the coin is sitting in a nickel 2x2 and it does looks a bit small there. I will weigh it and get back on this thread. Thanks all.