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  • privatecoinprivatecoin Posts: 3,566 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nothing a little jb weld cant fix ..

    Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value. Zero. Voltaire. Ebay coinbowlllc

  • ms71ms71 Posts: 1,555 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'd go with acetone, it'll clean right up.

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  • Dave99BDave99B Posts: 8,649 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Send it in. I'm really interested to see what the label says....'gun shot'?

    Dave

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  • CalifornianKingCalifornianKing Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭✭

    Flex tape should work

  • braddickbraddick Posts: 24,515 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @FredWeinberg said:
    I don't like the two rim dings !

    I take the bad with the good!
    Look how strong LIBERTY is compared to other examples.

    (Yes, I actually did purchase this.)

    peacockcoins

  • ChrisH821ChrisH821 Posts: 6,646 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Five cents for a washer, someone must have really been in a bind. Judging by the wear I'd guess it was made sometime in the 30's or 40's.

    Collector, occasional seller

  • Namvet69Namvet69 Posts: 9,205 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Some ingenious farmer needed to fix his machinery so he could feed us. I've dug lots of holed large cents but never a Buff. Ouch! Peace Roy

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  • WinLoseWinWinLoseWin Posts: 1,644 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Perfect coin for PCGS Restoration service.

    All they have to do is remove the air pockets in the middle and at the rims then you are good to go.

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  • CoinJunkieCoinJunkie Posts: 8,772 ✭✭✭✭✭

    As the saying goes, that coin has character!

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  • JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

    No.

  • SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,701 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Dave99B said:
    Send it in. I'm really interested to see what the label says....'gun shot'?

    Dave

    I have shot coins before, I don’t think it is a gun shot.

  • abcde12345abcde12345 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Jimnight said:
    No.

    :(

  • ShaunBC5ShaunBC5 Posts: 1,769 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @JBK said:
    That thing ain't worth a plugged nickel.

    But it will be once it's plugged!

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,948 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Isint that the unique one out the mint? I don't think it will cac either

  • ThreeCentSilverFLThreeCentSilverFL Posts: 1,694 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If it weren't for that rim damage, it may have had a chance!

  • ponderitponderit Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Holy Buffalo Batman!

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  • PTVETTERPTVETTER Posts: 5,997 ✭✭✭✭✭

    At one time it was a very high grade MS coin

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  • jesbrokenjesbroken Posts: 10,389 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I would send it to them, just to get their response. If you do, please post it here.
    Jim


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  • KliaoKliao Posts: 5,627 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I think you were robbed. You have like half the coin gone! It’s a 2.5 center now B)

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  • SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,701 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Testoon said:

    @Smudge said:

    @Dave99B said:
    Send it in. I'm really interested to see what the label says....'gun shot'?

    Dave

    I have shot coins before, I don’t think it is a gun shot.

    Was it self defense?

    No, target shooting.

  • Tom147Tom147 Posts: 1,485 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Is that PMD ?

  • ifthevamzarockinifthevamzarockin Posts: 8,908 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @braddick (Yes, I actually did purchase this.)

    I wouldn't have paid the $2.85 shipping not to mention the offer above that. :o:D

    That's it !!! I'm gonna break out the drill and put a hole in all my ebay coin listings.....slab and all! :p

  • Batman23Batman23 Posts: 4,999 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ifthevamzarockin said:
    Hey! The listing says "free returns" you otta send it back and tell em' it has a hole in it that you didn't see in the listing. :p>:)

    That is just sooo wrong! I'm still laughing as I type this but that is soo wrong... >:)

  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,607 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Why bother? It was probably shot by Annie Oakley and is therefore a collectors’ item as it is.

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  • 87redcivic87redcivic Posts: 144 ✭✭✭
    edited January 28, 2021 6:36AM

    Remember... if you give into the temptation to clean a coin, you could RUIN its future value. /s :)

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That hole is not from a bullet....However, I would wager someone did it and lied to their buddies about it being one. As to repair, it probably could be done... but why? Cheers, RickO

  • mr1931Smr1931S Posts: 6,366 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This forum finally gets the humor it so badly needs.

    “I believe in intuitions and inspirations. I sometimes feel that I am right. I do not know that I am. When two expeditions of scientists, financed by the Royal Academy, went forth to test my theory of relativity, I was convinced that their conclusions would tally with my hypothesis. I was not surprised when the eclipse of May 29, 1919, confirmed my intuitions. I would have been surprised if I had been wrong. I am enough of the artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” Albert Einstein- quoted in Saturday Evening Post interview (1929)

    “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” For Einstein, honesty was fundamental. Attention to truth in small things reflected a person’s integrity on a larger scale.

  • mr1931Smr1931S Posts: 6,366 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Dull drill bit was used. I would have passed on purchasing for that reason.

    “I believe in intuitions and inspirations. I sometimes feel that I am right. I do not know that I am. When two expeditions of scientists, financed by the Royal Academy, went forth to test my theory of relativity, I was convinced that their conclusions would tally with my hypothesis. I was not surprised when the eclipse of May 29, 1919, confirmed my intuitions. I would have been surprised if I had been wrong. I am enough of the artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” Albert Einstein- quoted in Saturday Evening Post interview (1929)

    “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” For Einstein, honesty was fundamental. Attention to truth in small things reflected a person’s integrity on a larger scale.

  • mr1931Smr1931S Posts: 6,366 ✭✭✭✭✭

    No such thing as a dull bullet. I discarded the bullet theory immediately.

    “I believe in intuitions and inspirations. I sometimes feel that I am right. I do not know that I am. When two expeditions of scientists, financed by the Royal Academy, went forth to test my theory of relativity, I was convinced that their conclusions would tally with my hypothesis. I was not surprised when the eclipse of May 29, 1919, confirmed my intuitions. I would have been surprised if I had been wrong. I am enough of the artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” Albert Einstein- quoted in Saturday Evening Post interview (1929)

    “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” For Einstein, honesty was fundamental. Attention to truth in small things reflected a person’s integrity on a larger scale.

  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I could repair that Nickel but you might not like the results.

  • Joe_360Joe_360 Posts: 1,775 ✭✭✭✭✭

    get out your welder...

  • Joe_360Joe_360 Posts: 1,775 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 28, 2021 7:50AM

    @ChrisH821 said:

    Judging by the wear I'd guess it was made sometime in the 30's or 40's.

    Oh, I got it...

  • ChrisH821ChrisH821 Posts: 6,646 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Joe_360 said:

    @ChrisH821 said:

    Judging by the wear I'd guess it was made sometime in the 30's or 40's.

    Oh, I got it...

    I guess I worded that weirdly, I would guess it was pulled from circulation and made into said washer in the 30's or 40's, maybe even earlier. Not much wear on it.

    Collector, occasional seller

  • BJandTundraBJandTundra Posts: 388 ✭✭✭✭

    @BillJones said:
    Why bother? It was probably shot by Annie Oakley and is therefore a collectors’ item as it is.

    Annie was retired in 1923, and died in 1926. Have to find a different "alleged" shooter.

  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,649 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It does open a discussion that few have the opportunity to contemplate as to what might have been

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  • ms71ms71 Posts: 1,555 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Annie Oakley? Possible, I suppose. She would have been 63 when it came out of the mint, she died 3 years
    later.

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  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,520 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Kliao said:
    I think you were robbed. You have like half the coin gone! It’s a 2.5 center now B)

    NAH.

    That's a three Cent nickel.

    Pete

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  • davewesendavewesen Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Repair? Sell it on eBay as a 'Major Error Coin with Extreme Eye Appeal'

  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,607 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 29, 2021 9:33AM

    @BJandTundra said:

    @BillJones said:
    Why bother? It was probably shot by Annie Oakley and is therefore a collectors’ item as it is.

    Annie was retired in 1923, and died in 1926. Have to find a different "alleged" shooter.

    The coin is dated 1923 so it could have gotten in under the wire. Before the problems the coins looks to be an EF. At any rate I doubt that she stopped shooting guns just because she had retired.

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