.70 grams. This piece is mostly blank, but with raised rims and five narrow rings at the border of each side. Milk chocolate in color, the overall glossy surfaces exhibit a subtly wrinkled texture under magnification, reminiscent of the "orange peel" phenomenon seen on Proof gold coins of the 19th century. A virtually mark-free example of this intriguing experimental proposal. </p>This piece is a product of the US Mints search for an alternative material to be used for the cent amidst the wartime copper shortage. Among the plastics manufacturers solicited for samples was Patent Button Company of Tennessee, Inc. who furnished 25 samples of the present offering along with 25 samples of a darker, general purpose phenolic resin to the (NBS) National Bureau of Standards for testing. While the samples provided by Patent Button Company were blank, all of the samples from competing manufacturers had been struck or molded by dies provided by the Mint, making these unsculpted samples easily distinguishable among the more ambiguous plastic "patterns" of the era. </p><br /></p>,PCGS# 544970.66.,,
