What on Earth ... ?

[Imahik]

Hi again, my new friends. I was looking through my wheats again, of which there are many. I looked at this one and snorted out a laugh. What on earth happened to this thing?
Please view the coin in the middle. It is the same size as a dime. (I held the penny and the dime together.) The rim is almost completely missing, but the edge of the coin has the same coloring. I included a penny and a dime so that you can see the difference.
http://home.comcast.net/~dennis_moncrief/woe.jpg
Thanks, guys, for any input.
Dennis (a.k.a. Imahik)

[Jack]

Dennis
Your 1945 cent has been altered to be used in a vending machine in place of a dime.The method used to make the reduction would be hard to know however someone had a lot more than 10 cents of time on their hands to get it done, maybe a school boy or a jail bird.
Jack
PS If you have a concret driveway or sidewalk nearby get one of your old copper cents and rub it on the concret surface for an hour or more and rotate the coin as you rub the edge and you will have a match for you find.

[coppercoins]

or 3 minutes on a wheel grinder.

[coppercoins]

but wear gloves...coins tend to get a bit hot when you're grinding them down

[Imahik]

Jack and C.D.,
I can see now that you are right. I put a loupe on the edge of the coin, and, sure enough, there are striations all around the edge.
http://home.comcast.net/~dennis_moncrief/woe2me.jpg
I was hoping I had an “11-cent piece,” but when I saw that there wasn’t any dime stamped underneath I didn’t know what it was.

[coppercoins]

A genuine 11 cent piece from that date would have to be silver. What would have happened is a struck dime would go back through the process as a cent and be re-struck. Cent planchets cannot go through the dime process, too large.

Essentially, double denomination coins have to be the planchet type of the smaller coin. six cent pieces are nickels struck on already struck cents...on cent planchets.