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Old 08-07-2024, 06:27 AM
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Originally Posted by butchie_t View Post
My guess is that it is a copper penny that was dipped after the Masonic Emblem was etched into the penny. If you were to take a sharp scribe and scratch the edge with it, then look at it with a loupe, you would more than likely see a copper color where the scribe scratch was made.

You may even be able to see copper colorings now in the hole under magnification.

Butch
The Masonic symbol is a stamping process. The first coin is the aluminum coin and the second is the zinc coated steel coin. With a some searching most if not all of the 1942 experimental coins have hit the market at one time or another.

When packs gets back to us with pics and a weight we will know a lot more.
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