What is this?

crypto79

Funny Ike Dollar?

ctf_error_coins

Punched out of a full sized Ike

BustHalfBrian

Very suspicious

ricko

Looks like a con job to me....Cheers, RickO

BillJones

Very suspicious indeed.

If it is real the new owner might be getting a visit from the Secret Service. Back in the 1970s a number of Ike dollars that were struck on cent planchets surfaced on the market. As it turned out they were the product of an inside job at the San Francisco mint, and not true mint errors. The government confiscated them.

NotSure

The reverse has the look of those 'real, shrunken' coins.....I can't remember where/when I saw them available, but they were, I believe, given a massive dose of electicity, and shrunken, in diameter, but 'thickened up'. The reverse of this coin has, I'll go on to the ledge and say, has the exact same look of those 'shrunken' coins. Though, I have to admit, I saw every denomination produced, I don't ever remember seeing an Ike 'shrunken' like that, and this was, I'm pretty certain, pre-golden dollar.

BUT, that 'process' gave/gives a certain 'look' that is common to every coin 'shrunk', and this reverse, again, has, IMO, the exact same 'look'. Though, that 'process' does produce a 'complete' coin, just smaller diameter wise, and much thicker. My immediate thought upon seeing the reverse, was that the reverse of this coin has that exact same look. Perhaps someone 'trimmed' one, to make it look the way it does. After all, look at how smooth that edge is. I may be wrong, as I'm no error expert, or WLH expert, or classic commem expert, or..., well, you get the idea.....so, JM2CW.

Rampage

The seller knows his errors very well, but he states in his ad that is "appears" to not be a mint made error.

BustHalfBrian

<< <i>The seller knows his errors very well, but he states in his ad that is "appears" to not be a mint made error. >>



Then it's not really an error at all, is it?

"Non-mint made error" seems oxymoronic...

slipgate

$113 after disclosing it was a fake? Break out the punches!

drwstr123

<< <i>The reverse has the look of those 'real, shrunken' coins.....I can't remember where/when I saw them available, but they were, I believe, given a massive dose of electicity, and shrunken, in diameter, but 'thickened up'. The reverse of this coin has, I'll go on to the ledge and say, has the exact same look of those 'shrunken' coins. Though, I have to admit, I saw every denomination produced, I don't ever remember seeing an Ike 'shrunken' like that, and this was, I'm pretty certain, pre-golden dollar.

BUT, that 'process' gave/gives a certain 'look' that is common to every coin 'shrunk', and this reverse, again, has, IMO, the exact same 'look'. Though, that 'process' does produce a 'complete' coin, just smaller diameter wise, and much thicker. My immediate thought upon seeing the reverse, was that the reverse of this coin has that exact same look. Perhaps someone 'trimmed' one, to make it look the way it does. After all, look at how smooth that edge is. I may be wrong, as I'm no error expert, or WLH expert, or classic commem expert, or..., well, you get the idea.....so, JM2CW. >>



I've purchased those magnetically reduced coins as gifts. they retain all details, not as the OP coin is altered.

MsMorrisine

Coins down to dimes have reeding

That's thicker than a nickel.


See where I'm going?

Rampage

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<< <i>The seller knows his errors very well, but he states in his ad that is "appears" to not be a mint made error. >>


Then it's not really an error at all, is it?
"Non-mint made error" seems oxymoronic... >>


That is absolutely correct This is not a mint error. Perhaps this seller bought it from someone and got burned himself. I doubt he would have "made" it himself.