Comments on: 1942 Experimental Glass U.S. Cent Goes for $70,500 in Heritage’s Florida Auction https://www.coinnews.net/2017/01/06/1942-experimental-glass-u-s-cent-goes-for-70500-in-heritages-florida-auction/ CoinNews delivers the latest World and US coin news Tue, 10 Jan 2017 03:08:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Mouse https://www.coinnews.net/2017/01/06/1942-experimental-glass-u-s-cent-goes-for-70500-in-heritages-florida-auction/#comment-194196 Tue, 10 Jan 2017 03:08:18 +0000 http://www.coinnews.net/?p=61023#comment-194196 I agree Seth.I hope it does end up in a museum, id love to take a look at it. its a piece of history. Wish i had it in my collection lol

]]> By: Seth Riesling https://www.coinnews.net/2017/01/06/1942-experimental-glass-u-s-cent-goes-for-70500-in-heritages-florida-auction/#comment-194180 Tue, 10 Jan 2017 00:24:02 +0000 http://www.coinnews.net/?p=61023#comment-194180 Munzen –

These experimental pieces are briefly described in the 2017 “Red Book” on page 385 in the patterns & experimental pieces section. There are 19 different types of these 1942 “cents” with this design in many alloys of metal & colored plastic & fiber & glass. The website you mentioned is great! Since the government wanted the Mint to save the more important metals needed for the war effort, the Mint put out bids to any company who could produce samples. The glass ones came from the top glass company in the US at the time, Corning company. Why they thought glass would not break back then is beyond me & this specimen is the only intact one known. Ironically, today Corning company makes glass dinner plates that are almost unbreakable! The value of a common piece, other than the glass one, in PF-65 is listed in the “Red Book” as $6,000. So someone really overpaid for this specimen at over twice the estimate. But it is a museum-quality piece & hopefully will wind up in a museum collection some day for all to see & study.

-NumisDudeTX

]]> By: Munzen https://www.coinnews.net/2017/01/06/1942-experimental-glass-u-s-cent-goes-for-70500-in-heritages-florida-auction/#comment-194170 Mon, 09 Jan 2017 21:32:15 +0000 http://www.coinnews.net/?p=61023#comment-194170 There’s a fascinating discussion in Roger Burdette’s book United States Pattern & Experimental Pieces of WW-II (sic), including trial pieces struck in plastic, fiber composite, and even hard rubber! There are also pictures of some but by no means all at the site uspatterns dot com.

Does anyone know how it was proposed to make coins from a thermoplastic material like glass?

]]> By: Nels https://www.coinnews.net/2017/01/06/1942-experimental-glass-u-s-cent-goes-for-70500-in-heritages-florida-auction/#comment-194079 Mon, 09 Jan 2017 06:31:09 +0000 http://www.coinnews.net/?p=61023#comment-194079 This coin is really cool! I never knew the United States mint making on till now! Thanks coinnews for showing it!

]]> By: Mouse https://www.coinnews.net/2017/01/06/1942-experimental-glass-u-s-cent-goes-for-70500-in-heritages-florida-auction/#comment-194051 Mon, 09 Jan 2017 02:17:15 +0000 http://www.coinnews.net/?p=61023#comment-194051 What a true piece of history. Congratulations to the purchaser of this amazing specimen.

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