1955 d... what happend

gene2393

is a 1955 d. my question is whats going on with the 55. sorry for the larger photos. this planchets is slightly smaller than the standard ones also looking at the edge of the coin there do not appear to be any tool marks, it is smooth all the way around? kind of interesting

1955 d

TomB

Looks like post mint damage to me.

gonzer

Tom is correct. NOTM (not of these mints)

Bochiman

Someone shaved around the rims and played with it.

commoncents05

Looks like a piece that was ground down to fool a vending machine into thinking it was a dime. And to think someone spent all that time to make a profit of 9 cents.

-Paul

LanceNewmanOCC

<< <i>Looks like post mint damage to me. >>





a lot of damaged coins out there like that one
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Dropdaflag

LEGGO MY EGGO!! Look another waffling president!

AMRC

Looks like the marks from a vise that held it while someone worked it with a or some such thing.

GrumpyEd

<< <i>Looks like the marks from a vise that held it while someone worked it with a or some such thing. >>





Looks like someone held it in a vise and used a file to make it dime size so it could trick a vending machine.

2manycoins

Strange

melvin289

Back when I was kid in the early 60's a soft drink was a dime from a machine. Kids would sit around and rub pennies on the sidewalk to wear them down so they would fool a drink machine. Hey back then people made a little over $1.00 an hour and 10¢ was a lot of money. for a kid.

Ron

bolivarshagnasty

Yeah, My name is Melvin and I did this also. It was a pinball fix for me. We'd check our handywork in the pay phone. If we got a dial tone, we'd hit the return and it would spit it back out. If it would not accept the altered Lincoln, we'd go back to the shop grinder and continue our work. What can I say, at 14 we were always broke.

Hey, is there like a twelve step program for this kinda thing??????

melvin289

<< <i>Yeah, My name is Melvin and I did this also. It was a pinball fix for me. We'd check our handywork in the pay phone. If we got a dial tone, we'd hit the return and it would spit it back out. If it would not accept the altered Lincoln, we'd go back to the shop grinder and continue our work. What can I say, at 14 we were always broke.

Hey, is there like a twelve step program for this kinda thing?????? >>



Shhhhhh. We might have to go to meetings. My name is melvin and I'm a juvenile delinquent.

Ron