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I’ve never seen a coin look like this. Anyone know what the world is going on with it 😭it weighs 3.1g.






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  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,344 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Mutilated coin. Not an error and worth one cent.

    All glory is fleeting.
  • Russell12Russell12 Posts: 231 ✭✭✭✭

    (while trying not to scream) . . . no, it's just post mint damage, someone obviously scraped the date off.

  • Mr_SpudMr_Spud Posts: 5,339 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 21, 2023 10:09AM

    Somebody was fooling around with it and damaged it with a tool. Copper is a fairly soft metal and easy to make marks like that with a steel tool. It might be an attempt where they started to carve a design into it and they gave up.

    Mr_Spud

  • GreenstangGreenstang Posts: 1,120 ✭✭✭✭✭

    To be an error, it would have to happen when the coin was struck.
    As there is no possible way for this to happen at that time, by
    default it is damage, no matter how it happened.

  • nwcoastnwcoast Posts: 2,863 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Some people have destructive tendencies.
    Especially if waiting in a parked car for long periods of time while their companion is shopping.

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  • coinbufcoinbuf Posts: 11,296 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I wish I'd never seen a coin like that. ;)

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  • jfriedm56jfriedm56 Posts: 1,242 ✭✭✭✭✭

    OMG- Really. One of the rare scratch-off errors!

  • MarkKelleyMarkKelley Posts: 1,876 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If you want to know what coins are errors and what is damage, the first thing you must do is LEARN THE MINTING PROCESS. If what you are seeing cannot happen at the Mint, then it must be damage. And you will see MANY more damaged coins than true collectible errors. Errors are rare, that's why they're valuable.

  • sellitstoresellitstore Posts: 2,870 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MarkKelley said:
    If you want to know what coins are errors and what is damage, the first thing you must do is LEARN THE MINTING PROCESS. If what you are seeing cannot happen at the Mint, then it must be damage. And you will see MANY more damaged coins than true collectible errors. Errors are rare, that's why they're valuable.

    But that's the hard way. Much easier to just ask.

    Collector and dealer in obsolete currency. Always buying all obsolete bank notes and scrip.
  • Steven59Steven59 Posts: 8,672 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This dog loves to find coins - the only problem is they always end up looking like the OP's coin :D

    "When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"

  • vplite99vplite99 Posts: 1,276 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Welcome!

    Vplite99
  • PizzamanPizzaman Posts: 280 ✭✭✭

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,328 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @jfriedm56 said:
    OMG- Really. One of the rare scratch-off errors!

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