What is the deal with this

[timo16]

Is this 1866 cent flat? It looks it to me. It was in a lot with a bad pic. I don't know what I was thinking really. It is the one with the stuff all over it.

[timo16]

The others are there for comparison.

[timo16]

Maybe the sides will help. The 1866 is on the outside:

[e1cnr]

it looks corroded or pitted, although it has quite a bit of detail still

 

 

even if it was a thin plancet, it is damaged

accurate weight may help some, but probably not much

[timo16]

A thin plancet, is that a thing? It also seems wider than the other cent.

[timo16]

I think conservation efforts would be warranted though. I am soaking it in distilled water now until Christmas and buy some Verdicare with my Christmas money.

[e1cnr]

what do you mean wider?

 

stand them up side by side, if your questionable 1866 is taller, it has been flattened somehow

 

squished between leather with a hammer, or ....

no idea why someone would do this, unless they were hoping to make it as bid as a nickel for some reason...

[timo16]

what do you mean wider?

 

stand them up side by side, if your questionable 1866 is taller, it has been flattened somehow

 

squished between leather with a hammer, or ....

no idea why someone would do this, unless they were hoping to make it as bid as a nickel for some reason...

It appears wider and thinner, like it had been flattened somehow. I hope to get rid of what is all over it just with distilled water and verdicare. I am not comfortable using anything else on coppers like acetone since it may discolor it. I soaked a heavily corroded steel cent found in circulation for a month and was surprised about all the corrosion that came off and even stuck to a worthless foreign coin in the same container.

[Conder101]

Picture isn't good enough for me to form a definite opinion, but it looks like it could either be flattened or possibly a broadstrike.

[timo16]

Picture isn't good enough for me to form a definite opinion, but it looks like it could either be flattened or possibly a broadstrike.

 

I heard this at another forum. It is either been flattened or a broad-strike. I don't know which one. It is now taking a bath in distilled water to see if it will help with the corrosion then I will probably get some Verdicare because there is just nothing I can think of to use on it I trust not to alter the color.