Dumb Criminals of the 1800's

DaveWcoins

Check out the center of the reverse on this 1833 Half Cent.

DIMEMAN

Gee......no oen would ever notice that! LOL!

Hemispherical

One Enormous Number

coinsarefun

OMG, hilarious. I actually had to look and sound out O,E,N.....huh?
Shame on me

Mdcoincollector2003

I can’t tell the dfifference I don’t thikn anyoen can.

LJenkins11

I like it. Wonder what the profession of the perpetrator was. ... or attempted to be.

Hemispherical

Spell checker

thisistheshow

I would actually assume it was someone's initials and they were being funny.

crazyhounddog

Maybe, Juan, would work too.

jabba

That’s awesome

philographer

Oen is the loneliest number...

BillJones

He probably went to a “blab school” where they didn’t have to write anything down.

Timbuk3

Ruined a perfectly fine coin !!!

Sweetpie

His action doesn't make Whole lotsa cents...

ricko

That is both sad and funny.... Cheers, RickO

DIMEMAN

On a different note.....my favorite dumb criminal story was the three guys who tried to hold up a gun store with knives!

All three were taken out in body bags! I guess they didn't realize that people who work in gun stores are just looking for an excuse to use their guns!

asheland

Hemispherical

Maybe... it was his/her’s name?

Norwegian: habitational name from a farmstead in Hordaland named Oen, from Old Norse Ó (unexplained), or from any of several named Øen, most from the definite form of øy ‘island’. Dutch: variant of Hoen.

https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=oen

Nah!

TwoKopeiki

Could this have been done on purpose to avoid prosecution? As in writing a proper denomination "one" would constitute counterfeiting or some other crime and writing "oen" would not?

johnny9434

eye wuld hav nevar norticed dat. I liek

VicPortland

Very amusing. Thanks for sharing.