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OAKSTAROAKSTAR Posts: 7,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited October 30, 2023 4:40PM in U.S. Coin Forum

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  • Mr_SpudMr_Spud Posts: 5,834 ✭✭✭✭✭

    SOS struck on screw

    Mr_Spud

  • jacrispiesjacrispies Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Screwed up Lincoln cent.

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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,583 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Frankenstein screw. It was struck on a screw. What we win 🏆

  • emeraldATVemeraldATV Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Does this thread count ?
    WHAT ?

  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,358 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That screw looks like it may have fallen out of a piece of mint machinery. :o

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  • GreenstangGreenstang Posts: 1,214 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wow, bet that really screwed up the die.

  • maymay Posts: 1,590 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 30, 2023 3:38AM

    Is it still worth a penny? ;)

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  • ApplejacksApplejacks Posts: 384 ✭✭✭

    Screw this😉

  • gonzergonzer Posts: 3,034 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Stainless steel metal screw? Why is there copper showing through?

  • AlanSkiAlanSki Posts: 1,926 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 30, 2023 4:36AM

    MS63 lol

  • Manifest_DestinyManifest_Destiny Posts: 6,900 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @gonzer said:
    Stainless steel metal screw? Why is there copper showing through?

    Copper from the planchets gets imparted on the dies.

  • JWPJWP Posts: 23,481 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 30, 2023 5:10AM

    A nickel and a Lincoln cent
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  • fathomfathom Posts: 1,756 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Unscrewpulous employee hijinks.

  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,358 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @fathom said:
    Unscrewpulous employee hijinks.

    I had that thought. That screw may have needed some help to make its way into the coining chamber.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
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  • OAKSTAROAKSTAR Posts: 7,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @PerryHall said:
    That screw looks like it may have fallen out of a piece of mint machinery. :o

    Sure it did, just like a nail fell out of the mint machinery and into the coining chamber. :D

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  • OAKSTAROAKSTAR Posts: 7,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Ownerofawheatiehorde said:
    Is it still worth a penny? ;)

    The screw is worth more then a penny.

    Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )

  • OAKSTAROAKSTAR Posts: 7,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I don't know what it looks like in a slab but they actually weighed the screw??? That must make it official!! :D:D

    Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )

  • ELVIS1ELVIS1 Posts: 174 ✭✭✭

    Pretty awesome...

  • GiveMeProofGiveMeProof Posts: 624 ✭✭✭✭

    MS64+ ??? did it CAC? :D

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