Is this a die cap or is it man made?
crunkzilla
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I think the coins are french 5 centimes from around the 1st world war. 
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Oldhoopster
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Definitely post mint damage. Not anything like a die cap with the hole
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lordmarcovan
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PMD, but regardless, it would be man-made either way.
Given that that is a WW1-era French coin, I suspect that was a piece of "trench art" which never got completed. Trench art carvings on French coins are very common from the period.
It looks as though someone started to make it into a ring.
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crunkzilla
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Okay. Someone had told me that a coin had gotten stuck in the machine and had to be drilled out after multiple coins had been pressed together....
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That person sure has an active (and faulty) imagination.
In that scenario it would have been much larger than a normal coin, not to mention easy to remove from the die with all that extra bulk to pull on.
spooned
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PMD.
I started researching World War 1 trench art and it does appear that it was being turned into a ring. I appreciate you all breaking me off with some knowledge.