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1935 Penny with Bullet
Money Shot
We recently acquired this interesting and inexplicable curiosity. it is a 1935 penny that has been shot with an old fashioned lead musket-type bullet. If the coin had been older, it would have been plausible to speculate that it had been rendered this way in a duel, and the penny had saved the life of one of the participants. However, 1935 is certainly quite far removed from the age of dueling with flintlock pistols!
So how did this penny end up like this? A more mundane explination is that someone from the 1930s or later was messing about with a flintlock pistol and ended up shooting a penny to see what happened, possibly to satisfy his own curiosity as to whether a coin or other relatively thin piece of metal was capable of stopping a bullet. Judging from the fact that the bullet clearly failed to completely penetrate the coin, the hypothesis that it could have done would appear to have been proven...
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