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Can someone help identify this coin?

HeatherKHeatherK Posts: 6
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Hi everyone,

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I was browsing around and found the board, everyone seems to be pretty knowledged about coins.

Anyway, I recently found a coin at my house, and I'm just trying to figure out if this is a rare misprint of some kind, or something that somebody just altered on their own. I wanna find out what the heck is wrong with this thing! image

I haven't taken any pictures, but if anyone is interested I will try to take some and get them posted. I'll try and describe it best I can, but, i'm no expert! image

Okay, so i have a dime which is from the year 1997, has a little P over the year, if that's anything important. Simply a normal dime on the front. Nothing at all different from any other coin, not flat. The back is mostly silver with some areas of copper around the edges. It's totally flat except for the area right in the center, almost a small raised circle with short bits of line where the torch would be. The top looks somewhat pinched, but it's not visible from the front. The edges of the coin have ridges.

So can anyone help to identify this coin for me? I didn't think much of it at first, but the fact that the back is flat, and the front is perfect, I don't see how anyone could flatten only one side of a coin.

Let me know if pictures are needed, and i'll try and get them up soon! I'll check back on the board, but anyone could also email me:

penguin3890@aol.com

Thanks!
Heather

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  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    Welcome. I personally would enjoy seeing pictures.
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  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    Welcome. It sounds like someone was playing with the dime and purposely damaged it. Pictures would help.
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  • HeatherKHeatherK Posts: 6
    sure, i'll get some pics up as soon as i can
  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭
    Sounds like someone has ground the back off.
  • kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭
    Welcome to the forum Heather! A pic would help.

    Cameron Kiefer
  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,954 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Welcome to the forums! Yes- a pic is needed. But just to take a pre-pic stab at it, I'll guess it's a bubble in the planchet?

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  • wjd283wjd283 Posts: 1,406
    image

    Just from your discription,I'd think it has been put on a grinding/buffing wheel.

    Pics are needed to be sure though.
  • HeatherKHeatherK Posts: 6
    okay, here are some images i got. i couldn't find my camera, so i resorted to just scanning the actual coin into my scanner. it didn't really do it justice, but i figure it's a temporary solution, and you guys would probably be able to give me a good idea about it. if you need me to, i can try and get actual photographs tomorrow, but here are the images... just imagine the dime really shiny though, the scanner didn't exactly pick up it's luster.
  • HeatherKHeatherK Posts: 6
    the other side...
  • darktonedarktone Posts: 8,437 ✭✭✭
    looks like someone altered a dime to make a button or something.
  • relayerrelayer Posts: 10,570 ✭

    It's a post-mint alteration.

    Why would somebody do it? Who knows?
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  • gripgrip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I coulden't begin to guess,very strange.
    Al
  • HeatherKHeatherK Posts: 6
    Okay, thanks everyone...

    I guess it would be easier if you were able to actually hold it and see first hand and everything. I'll probably take it to a coin dealer or somewhere to get an opinion from them also. I'm no coin collector, but I've basically never seen a coin like this before, so I guess I'm just really interested to find out why it looks like this and all... I suppose this is how you get hooked on a hobby like this, eh?? image

    Thanks again!
  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,954 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It looks like it was made into a tie-tac & the pin came off. The lump is where the pin was soldered on.

    Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.

  • gripgrip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
    YES!
    And welcome to coin collectingimage
    Al
  • pursuitoflibertypursuitofliberty Posts: 6,909 ✭✭✭✭✭
    golf ball marker ... lost the little pin that was soldered to the back

    have seen similar before

    Welcome to the boards!

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  • richbeatrichbeat Posts: 2,288 ✭
    Welcome aboard! image
  • kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭
    I like you're icon Heather.

    Cameron Kiefer
  • CrackoutCrackout Posts: 1,368 ✭✭✭✭✭
    golf ball marker ... lost the little pin that was soldered to the back

    image
  • HeatherKHeatherK Posts: 6


    << <i>I like you're icon Heather.

    Cameron Kiefer >>



    Thanks... I had to register and everything to be able to post on the board... so I picked an icon at random, but turned out to be the seagull from Finding Nemo... I love that movie image

    and yes, the pin explanation sounds very logical, so thank you to everyone for helping!
  • kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭
    Well, I hope you come back here to the boards and start collecting coins!

    Cameron Kiefer
  • ss350camaross350camaro Posts: 4,529
    That round area in the middle definately looks like the remnants of the head of a stud put on with a spotweld / stud gun.

    Probably was a Golf marker at one time.


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