Saw a fake error today
CaptHenway
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At the Denver Coin Expo. It was a 1962-D cent that was blanked by a dime-sized rod through a dime-sized hole in a piece of steel. I assume that it was done so that somebody could use it as a dime in a pay phone. The edge looked like the edge of a Type One blank. The edges of the reverse field were curved down. IN GOD WE TRUST and the 2 of the date were crushed by the end of the hollow blanking rod.
I think the cost of a pay call went up from a nickel to a dime somewhere around then. Sounds like a lot of work to make nine cents, but if you get the punch press set up and run a 5,000 coin bag of cents through it you make some money.
Was in an old-time error collection one of the dealers bought written up as a "cent struck on a foreign planchet."
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Interesting !!!
Yes, there were a lot of those cent/dime fakes years ago.... seems people just like screwing the system....Cheers, RickO
But maybe worth a fifty if the guy was calling his bookie.
Dealer should know better
Collector, occasional seller
It fooled me at first glance until I studied it properly, and I am both a trained Authenticator and an error coin expert. Just goes to prove that first impressions are sometimes wrong.
I've found several cent coins in coin roll searches that have been shaved, filed down etc to dime size. Usually 1960s era coins.
I have seen lots of them over the years crudely filed or cut down. This was precision sheared.
We all get fooled on occasion. Both ways. You look at enough fake 16-D dimes a.m.d even the real ones stay to look fake at first glance.
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Interesting, Thanks for posting.
Seems to me we have had a steady diet of fake errors the last couple of months on this forum.
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