Now THAT'S gotta hurt!

braddick

What the heck happened?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1385589121

LanLord

Tried to cut it with a set of side cut pliers? Although I don't know why someone would do that.

Bikingnut

I hate it when that happens.

kryptonitecomics

Ouch, they couldn't do that to a 1909 VDB, they just had to destroy the big boy!!!!!! It almost looks like some one took a hammer and a chisel to it???

Sealyp

Jamed in a coin sorter mayhaps? I bought one off ebay a couple years ago, big commercial type for cheap. I would goto the bank, buy tons of rolls, and go through them. Then I'd dump everything into a bucket, run it through the sorter and bring the bags back to the bank. I had a couple get hung up, and while I never had one THAT marked, you could tell something happened.

clevegreg

I bet it was the same people who took the hatchet to this Indian:

clw54

It looks like it was done fairly recently, too. Crazy.

dbldie55

Imagine that, the vdb is on one half, and the 1909-S the other. Hmm.

HuliganRS

Coin Killaz !!!

Madness!

littlewicher

<< <i>Imagine that, the vdb is on one half, and the 1909-S the other. Hmm. >>



I just noticed that. Typical fraud.

lordmarcovan

Ow.

I had an 1877 Indian that looked that way, once. Not quite as damaged, though.

wayneherndon

Perhaps it is a fake and someone was defacing it to keep the unwary from getting taken. I can't tell enough about the S from the pic to say one way or the other.

WH

goyankeez

It does look like someone tried to piece a coin together. That is a very clean cut. IMO

morganbarber

It could be two coins put together, but I still side with the coin being a fake that someone defaced to keep the public safe.

dorkkarl

reminds me a lot of the "pi55ing minuteman"

KINCOIN

dorkkarl
Collector
Ah ha THE PISSING MINUTE MAN it is a very rare coin. No comparison to the penny.

GO TO:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1385212731


Looks like someone used a pair of wire cutters and almost cut through that penny.

KINGCOIN KING OF COINS

WilliamGibbs

In the late 1970s, not long after the discovery and verification of the 1943/2-P Jefferson 5-cent coin, a reader sent an example to Collectors' Clearinghouse, wanting to know whether it was the overdate. It was. By wear, the coin graded at least AU, and maybe was even Mint State. It was a little difficult to grade, however, because someone had bent the coin at about a 45-degree angle; it looked like the letter V edge on. It was enough to make you cry. Here was this really great die variety in high grade, except for being bent into a V-shape.

William T. Gibbs
News Editor
Coin World

dorkkarl

<< <i>THE PISSING MINUTE MAN it is a very rare coin. No comparison to the penny. >>

note that i said it REMINDS me of the other, not that it is LIKE the other.

by the way, Mr. McNulty, you never did answer my question (but you followed up on this post???). why is being KING OF COINS so significant? what's it doing for ya?

K S

nwcs

The amazing thing is that someone (with no feedback) has bid $100 for this sad coin.

paulheep

I agree with the idea it's 2 different halves pieced together. It is amazing someone is bidding it, espectally at $100!!

Paul

Sealyp

<< <i>The amazing thing is that someone (with no feedback) has bid $100 for this sad coin. >>



$100, and no feedback huh. Well speaking of fakes, they just abound in that auction huh!