What came between these dollars???

danarchy

Heya.
Thought I would share these. I am not a Peace dollar collector, however I got 3 today. I think these 2 are an interesting set. Whaddya think???

Here's a close up of the left...


also the right...


what in the world was in the way??? BTW there are flow lines that don't show up in the date area.

dan

kryptonitecomics

It looks like some one dropped a few Cheetos in the press

Bear

Looks like what you got there, is a case of silver termites.

lathmach

Looks like someone just dug the "28" off those 1928 P Peace Dollars.

Ray

darktone

Like Ray said it looks like some one carved the date out. mike

stujoe

Someone's very first and very poor attempt at altering a date?

DHeath

Probably a dentist in 1929, working on fillings.

Dog97

Looks like super heavy duty bag marks or post mint damage.

Conder101

I have a possibility. During the early sixties, in an attempt to discourage collectors (and others) from hoarding the silver dollars, some casinos began oblitherating the date on the coins. The theory was that without a date the collectors wouldn't want them and the regular customers wouldn't want to keep them as souviners because they were damaged. Of course as the value of the metal rose above the face value of the coin the damage didn't matter because they then became simple bullion.

Gemini

I think Conder has something there as he jolted my memory bank. I believe he is right and Casinos did do this to cut down on the dollars leaving Nevada.

kranky

That's why I love this place. I never heard that story about the casinos before! Very interesting!

That would have been a great job to feature on the "What's My Line" TV show - "I mutilate coins to remove the date".