1942 penny error?

i recently bought a pound of pennies from Ebay.com and was looking through them and found a wheat penny, except the reverse side where the wheat is supposed to be is blank. about a centimeter away from the middle it shows a small bit of the wording as if the penny wasn't blank...its hard to explain, but heres a picture. and by the way the other side is not like this side, its normal. if this is a true error whats would its value be???

 

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Welcome to the forums! Whats the obverse look like, it appears to be ground down, or just worn.

 

I'm not gonna argue because i'm new to identifying coin errors but how does a coin become that flat yet still stay even???

 

Welcome to CT!

1) Always post pictures of BOTH sides of a coin.
2) Crop pictures to just the coin, we don't want to see more background than coin.

Coin appears to have been ground down, the rim is gone. PMD

 

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I agree its been damage by hand or PMD.
damage like your often is done by a washer or dryer were the coin has stayed in one of them for awhile

When posting please post Obv + Rev and the area you maybe asking about.

 

thanks for all the help! i can post the picture for the other side in a bit. i'm new to all of this so i don't know much, and thanks for all tips on posting pictures!

 

ok heres the obverse and im gonna post the reverse again as well.

 

Have you weighed the coin? Would it be possible it could take off .1 of a gram?

 

My scale says it weighs 3 grams and I also did some comparing by weighing other wheat pennies and they all were 3 grams, my scale isn't to specific so if you were expecting a 3. Something just know that.