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Victorianrosary
Victorianrosary Posts: 24 ✭✭
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I’ve never seen a coin look like this. Anyone know what the world is going on with it 😭it weighs 3.1g.






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  • 291fifth
    291fifth Posts: 25,218 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Mutilated coin. Not an error and worth one cent.

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  • Russell12
    Russell12 Posts: 846 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    (while trying not to scream) . . . no, it's just post mint damage, someone obviously scraped the date off.

  • Mr_Spud
    Mr_Spud Posts: 7,272 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 21, 2023 11:09AM
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    Somebody was fooling around with it and damaged it with a tool. Copper is a fairly soft metal and easy to make marks like that with a steel tool. It might be an attempt where they started to carve a design into it and they gave up.

    Mr_Spud

  • Greenstang
    Greenstang Posts: 1,645 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    To be an error, it would have to happen when the coin was struck.
    As there is no possible way for this to happen at that time, by
    default it is damage, no matter how it happened.

  • nwcoast
    nwcoast Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Some people have destructive tendencies.
    Especially if waiting in a parked car for long periods of time while their companion is shopping.

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  • coinbuf
    coinbuf Posts: 12,567 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I wish I'd never seen a coin like that. ;)

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  • jfriedm56
    jfriedm56 Posts: 3,101 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    OMG- Really. One of the rare scratch-off errors!

  • MarkKelley
    MarkKelley Posts: 2,101 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    If you want to know what coins are errors and what is damage, the first thing you must do is LEARN THE MINTING PROCESS. If what you are seeing cannot happen at the Mint, then it must be damage. And you will see MANY more damaged coins than true collectible errors. Errors are rare, that's why they're valuable.

  • sellitstore
    sellitstore Posts: 3,086 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @MarkKelley said:
    If you want to know what coins are errors and what is damage, the first thing you must do is LEARN THE MINTING PROCESS. If what you are seeing cannot happen at the Mint, then it must be damage. And you will see MANY more damaged coins than true collectible errors. Errors are rare, that's why they're valuable.

    But that's the hard way. Much easier to just ask.

    Collector and dealer in obsolete currency. Always buying all obsolete bank notes and scrip.
  • Steven59
    Steven59 Posts: 11,227 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    This dog loves to find coins - the only problem is they always end up looking like the OP's coin :D

    "When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"

  • vplite99
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    Welcome!

    Vplite99
  • Pizzaman
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  • johnny9434
    johnny9434 Posts: 34,049 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @jfriedm56 said:
    OMG- Really. One of the rare scratch-off errors!

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