Another Heartbreaker. What motivates Anyone to do this?

braddick

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1392442483

On a Key date too. Why would someone do this?

supercoin

Divorce "settlement"?

oldcameoproofsguy

Don't you have to do that to a coin to make a lordmarcovan vest?

goyankeez

I was gonna say to make a "holey coin vest". This time with only the key dates!!

Or to make some really cool jewelry.

TWQG

It's a keyhole.

Twowood

Obviously the perp doesn't have any appreciation for coins...Why on earth would the seller put something like this up for auction and who would buy it? Twowood

ccrdragon

People who are trying to put together a low-end set of indians (like my brother-in-law) who can't afford to pay
full price for the key dates....

windwhispersintrees

It was just a penny...why would joe-average non-collector circa 1909 have any reason not to put a hole in it? How would he (or she) have known it was worth more than a penny?
Also, maybe it's a counterfeit somebody holed for a souvenir?