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Strange Marks on a Double Thaler

hyperizerhyperizer Posts: 130
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Any idea what might have caused the strange scratches above Germania's head on this otherwise beautiful coin? image

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  • hyperizerhyperizer Posts: 130
    Here's a close-up:

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  • AuldFartteAuldFartte Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭✭
    Looks like they were made with a blade of some kind.

    Too bad ... otherwise really nice coin.
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  • hyperizerhyperizer Posts: 130
    I wonder why someone would do that. It looks like old damage since it's toned. I still like the coin though. image
  • sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
    Perhaps someone was checking to see if it was really made of silver. Either that or someone took the coin out of its holder and dropped it. image


    I have never ever done anything like that, oh no, not me, never ever....... well maybe once to a proof 1970 small s cent a few years back, but aside from that I have never made such a blunder.
  • harashaharasha Posts: 3,113 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Lovely coin. Since I am more interested in type than in condition, marks of this type would not faze me too much, as long as they did not mutilate the coin's chief feature, the bust of Germania.
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  • kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭
    Thats a scratch which is considered damage.

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  • sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
    Cam,

    Where do you draw the line, so to speak, between simple scratch and damage?
  • spinaker2000spinaker2000 Posts: 4,329 ✭


    << <i>Perhaps someone was checking to see if it was really made of silver. Either that or someone took the coin out of its holder and dropped it. >>



    image NO!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not him!!!!!!!!!
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  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,845 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It is still attractive...

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  • sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
    I like it. The gouge wouldn't stop me putting in my collection.
  • bozboz Posts: 1,405 ✭


    << <i>NO!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not him!!!!!!!!! >>


    I was thinking the same thingimage
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  • hyperizerhyperizer Posts: 130
    Who?

    It may be damage, but it definitely gives it character. Like a battle scar.
  • elvernoelverno Posts: 1,068 ✭
    50 years earlier and we'd write it off to adjustment marks. But by 1861 I imagine the planchets were pretty uniform. A shame though...
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  • bozboz Posts: 1,405 ✭


    << <i> Who? >>


    There was a youngster not too long ago that took a blade and scratched a gold sovereign to see if it was fake. There must have been 50 posts by him on this subject. Can't remember his name though.
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  • spinaker2000spinaker2000 Posts: 4,329 ✭
    His initals were "GCL". We don't speak his name for fear that he may return. image
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