How Would This 43 Cent Have Been Made?

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• ctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 22, 2018 4:02PM

  Boredom

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• Martin Posts: 999 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 22, 2018 4:13PM

  Die cut with a Whitney punch. Punch out the steel, punch out the copper hammer the copper cut out back in the steel. Would take less than five minutes.

  Martin

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• CaptHenway Posts: 33,033 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 22, 2018 4:15PM

  To clarify, cut identical-size pieces out of two different coins and then put the pieces back in the other coin.

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• BuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,564 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 22, 2018 4:20PM

  WOW..........too much free time.

  Pete

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• 1Mike1 Posts: 4,427 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 22, 2018 10:56PM

  The answeres above make sense. I thought maybe someone at the mint was getting creative that day.

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 23, 2018 6:04AM

  Yep... this is a home project... no way it was done at the mint....someone with too little coin knowledge and way too much free time...Cheers, RickO

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• Jimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 23, 2018 6:39AM

  Entertainment.

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• BillJones Posts: 35,000 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 23, 2018 6:48AM edited January 23, 2018 6:49AM

  @1Mike1 said:
  The answeres above make sense. I thought maybe someone at the mint was getting creative that day.

  Perhaps that was what the creator of this mutilation was hoping you would think so that you would pay him a good price for it. Maybe next time he’ll get it right on the first try and not have two miscues before he succeeds in bonding the coin pieces.

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