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Can anyone identify this coin?

kastratit336kastratit336 Posts: 10 ✭
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Greetings, I have, as part of the collection I inherited, a strange coin with a few marks. If anyone's able to ID it I would appreciate it. Thank you!

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  • SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,611 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Another coin in the photo for size reference may help.

  • kastratit336kastratit336 Posts: 10 ✭

  • yosclimberyosclimber Posts: 4,857 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It looks like a large cent that some kid mangled with a vise and some washers....

  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,423 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @yosclimber said:
    It looks like a large cent that some kid mangled with a vise and some washers....

    That would be my guess. If we could get the weight, it would help. It may be a foreign coin that got smashed with a hammer for some reason. In that condition, it really has no value.

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  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 33,696 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Weight
    Diameter
    Thickness

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  • kastratit336kastratit336 Posts: 10 ✭

    It is 4.8 g and 1" in diameter. I can't measure the thickness with the ruler I have.

  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 33,696 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Too heavy for a us blank

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  • FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭✭✭

    'slug'

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Good luck with that... It is far beyond any numismatic value... if indeed it every was a coin. Cheers, RickO

  • AlexinPAAlexinPA Posts: 1,458 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Never a coin but a slug.

  • moursundmoursund Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @StrikeOutXXX said:

    If I rotate it a bit - based on the horizontal line near the bottom, and what looks like the remnant of a date just below it, as well as the "N" in the upper right I'd say it started off its life as something from Great Britain - perhaps a half penny similar to this.

    That is freaking awesome! How did you do that?!? :o

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  • jesbrokenjesbroken Posts: 10,164 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @StrikeOutXXX said:

    If I rotate it a bit - based on the horizontal line near the bottom, and what looks like the remnant of a date just below it, as well as the "N" in the upper right I'd say it started off its life as something from Great Britain - perhaps a half penny similar to this.

    What an eye.
    Jim


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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,423 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @moursund said:

    @StrikeOutXXX said:

    If I rotate it a bit - based on the horizontal line near the bottom, and what looks like the remnant of a date just below it, as well as the "N" in the upper right I'd say it started off its life as something from Great Britain - perhaps a half penny similar to this.

    That is freaking awesome! How did you do that?!? :o

    It's not too difficult to rotate a coin. With some practice I'm sure you'll be able to do it too.

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  • moursundmoursund Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @PerryHall said:

    @moursund said:

    @StrikeOutXXX said:

    If I rotate it a bit - based on the horizontal line near the bottom, and what looks like the remnant of a date just below it, as well as the "N" in the upper right I'd say it started off its life as something from Great Britain - perhaps a half penny similar to this.

    That is freaking awesome! How did you do that?!? :o

    It's not too difficult to rotate a coin. With some practice I'm sure you'll be able to do it too.

    I can pitch a coin, or roll it... but I have trouble with the yaw... :smile:

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