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What is this - a hybrid Dime/Penny?

TheTalkingWalnutTheTalkingWalnut Posts: 444
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I was called over to an old lady's house this morning by a mutual friend where I bought some Eisenhower dollars and a couple of 90% dimes. When I got back I realized that one of the coins that I bought was the front half of a Mercury dime welded or glued or cladded or somethinged to the back of a Wheat penny. Can anyone tell me what this is; where it was made (Mint error or homemade?), and most importantly, why someone would do this?

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  • GaCoinGuyGaCoinGuy Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭✭
    Looks homemade to me, but it's kinda cool. No idear why someone would do something like that other than to just see if they could.
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  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not a mint error. Someone with too much time on their hands.
  • rheddenrhedden Posts: 6,632 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I bet it's a magician's coin. Penny goes in the magic hat, dime comes out (along with a white rabbit, of course).
  • DorkGirlDorkGirl Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I bet it's a magician's coin. Penny goes in the magic hat, dime comes out (along with a white rabbit, of course). >>



    Agree.
    Becky
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,824 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    << <i>I bet it's a magician's coin. Penny goes in the magic hat, dime comes out (along with a white rabbit, of course). >>



    Agree. >>



    Ditto.

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  • TheTalkingWalnutTheTalkingWalnut Posts: 444
    Cool. Thanks!
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,715 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    << <i>

    << <i>I bet it's a magician's coin. Penny goes in the magic hat, dime comes out (along with a white rabbit, of course). >>



    Agree. >>



    Ditto. >>



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  • NotSureNotSure Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭
    It'd be cooler if the 'maker' of the coin had a brain fart and put a Memorial reverse on it....unless it was done before '59, which is most likely when it was done. I agree, more than likely a magician's coin.
    I'll come up with something.
  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>What is this - a hybrid Dime/Penny? >>



    No.


    It's a "How'd he do that?" coin.
    I decided to change calling the bathroom the John and renamed it the Jim. I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning.



    The name is LEE!
  • razzlerazzle Posts: 993 ✭✭✭
    Looks like the fabled prototype of the 11 cent piece. Right after WW1, there was a popular move in the States to include the "eleventies" in the count after 10; 'leventy one, 'leventy two, 'leventy three, and so on. The thinking was that people would have less trouble with their teens. Seems it was abandoned in favor of the cumbersome decimal and metric system...
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  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,681 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's a magician's coin but is missing the rest of the cent, which was hollowed out.
    All glory is fleeting.

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