Not sure if anyone has mentioned this or has crossed your mind but I think this is the work of a those damn organ grinder monkey's . I've seen this before, it's ugly what they do.
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Yep... sure looks like a train track cent.... we did that as kids....only when we had an extra coin... after all, a cent could buy a penny candy.... ... Cheers, RickO
.....Well I ride on a Mailtrain babe,
.....you can't buy a thrill................
.....I've been up all night,
.....leanin' on your windowsill.
Retired Collector & Dealer in Major Mint Error Coins & Currency since the 1960's.Co-Author of Whitman's "100 Greatest U.S. Mint Error Coins", and the Error Coin Encyclopedia, Vols., III & IV. Retired Authenticator for Major Mint Errors for PCGS. A 50+ Year PNG Member.A full-time numismatist since 1972, retired in 2022.
It was almost certainly made by some mischievous or bored kid, but coins squished by trains can have some real value if the train was something significant. Cents crushed by Lincoln's funeral train are eagerly collected, for example. Somewhere I have a coin crushed by a train that carried the King and Queen while on a visit to Canada in the 1930s. The key, of course, is to have some reasonably believable documentation of provenance with the coin.
@FredWeinberg said:
.....Well I ride on a Mailtrain babe,
.....you can't buy a thrill................
.....I've been up all night,
.....leanin' on your windowsill.
@JBK said:
It was almost certainly made by some mischievous or bored kid, but coins squished by trains can have some real value if the train was something significant. Cents crushed by Lincoln's funeral train are eagerly collected, for example. Somewhere I have a coin crushed by a train that carried the King and Queen while on a visit to Canada in the 1930s. The key, of course, is to have some reasonably believable documentation of provenance with the coin.
I have a cent crushed by the Loch Ness Monster when it was on its way to visit Bigfoot.
(glad someone besides the Colonel
got the reference!)
Retired Collector & Dealer in Major Mint Error Coins & Currency since the 1960's.Co-Author of Whitman's "100 Greatest U.S. Mint Error Coins", and the Error Coin Encyclopedia, Vols., III & IV. Retired Authenticator for Major Mint Errors for PCGS. A 50+ Year PNG Member.A full-time numismatist since 1972, retired in 2022.
@JBK said:
It was almost certainly made by some mischievous or bored kid, but coins squished by trains can have some real value if the train was something significant. Cents crushed by Lincoln's funeral train are eagerly collected, for example. Somewhere I have a coin crushed by a train that carried the King and Queen while on a visit to Canada in the 1930s. The key, of course, is to have some reasonably believable documentation of provenance with the coin.
I have a cent crushed by the Loch Ness Monster when it was on its way to visit Bigfoot.
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It's a train run over. I did it (not the OP) and gave them to my grandkids.
Pete
train track coin
Train track coin. I see 194? as the date.
Definitely train, have many similar.
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I did that often as a kid. Clearly a train track coin.
Not sure if anyone has mentioned this or has crossed your mind but I think this is the work of a those damn organ grinder monkey's . I've seen this before, it's ugly what they do.
I believe it has been damaged by the City of New Orleans.
junk
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Yep... sure looks like a train track cent.... we did that as kids....only when we had an extra coin... after all, a cent could buy a penny candy....
... Cheers, RickO
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graded silver coins (NEED TO SELL ASAP)
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https://photos.app.goo.gl/7bPCP787VCZCCKb67
Finally, an affordable 1943 bronze cent!
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Rail Road kill
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That is a terminal case of rail road rim.
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.....Well I ride on a Mailtrain babe,
.....you can't buy a thrill................
.....I've been up all night,
.....leanin' on your windowsill.
Well said, Fred. I've heard of people pinching pennies, but that coin is RIDICULOUS.
Pete
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"I'm no longer amazed at mistakes the Mint makes.
I'm just here to sing the Blues".
It was almost certainly made by some mischievous or bored kid, but coins squished by trains can have some real value if the train was something significant. Cents crushed by Lincoln's funeral train are eagerly collected, for example. Somewhere I have a coin crushed by a train that carried the King and Queen while on a visit to Canada in the 1930s. The key, of course, is to have some reasonably believable documentation of provenance with the coin.
Maybe it has a 'railroad rim?'
It takes a lot to laugh.....
I have a cent crushed by the Loch Ness Monster when it was on its way to visit Bigfoot.
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My Adolph A. Weinman signature

.....it takes a Train to cry....
(glad someone besides the Colonel
got the reference!)
I think this guy got a hold of it .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_RxtnTPmlA