help with very odd 2017-P shield penny

[port ewen ace]

cropped spongy devices with a weight of 1.9 grams, edge is zinc, so not a dime planchet.
my guesses are---
foreign planchet?
or weak test strike?
or some variant of a capped die strike?----
does not appear to be a "dryer" coin or tampering..... HELP

 

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[cudamark]

Maybe it was just a zinc cent ground down to pass as a dime?

 

[port ewen ace]

Maybe it was just a zinc cent ground down to pass as a dime?

no rim tooling visible, have seen cents that crooks tried to make dime sized to pass in a roll, always crude & easy to spot. still have no eye deer what up wit this puppy

 

[flinthunter]

Following. I'd like to see this solved. I found a Lincoln Cent like this about 20 years ago while metal detecting.

 

[dejapooh]

I'd say PMD. Dryer is a good guess.

 

[enamel7]

It couldn't be more obvious that this is pmd.

 

[galenrog]

Looks stunningly similar to a zinc cent I pulled out of my washer the last time I removed debris from beneath the agitator.

Most look like the typical “dryer” coin, but one of them looked a lot like yours. Lots of edge wear, with much less obverse and reverse.

Time for more coffee.