What is this? Bust Dime double brockage?

UtahCoin

I know it's hard to tell from the picture, but this dime is incuse on both obverse and reverse. Any ideas?

commoncents05

Looks like it might be counterfeit.

-Paul

USMoneylover

How does the reeding on the edge look?

UtahCoin

<< <i>How does the reeding on the edge look? >>



It's there but weak.

LanLord

Maybe I'm not understanding that thing, but shouldn't a true brockage have mirror image effects?

errormaven

Both faces simply look damaged and corroded. I see no brockage.

USMoneylover

That would also cause a mirrored image on the reverse, no?

CaptHenway

Excessive localized corrosion.

Ever see a coin that is heavily encrusted that got back into circulation, so that the crust wears off on the high points, exposing bare metal on the date and stars and whatever?

Imagine such a coin that then gets buried in the ground or dumped down a sewer into a corrosive environment, where the environment attacks the bare metal and eats down into the coin in the same pattern as the date or stars or whatever. Later it is found and the original encrustation cleaned away showing relatively intact fields but holes where the exposed details used to be. That is what you have.

TD

BigE

Sewer? I'd wash up after touching it------BigE

CaptHenway

<< <i>Sewer? I'd wash up after touching it------BigE >>



There's a lot of Drano and similar cleaners down there. Very corrosive environment.

TD