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Victorianrosary
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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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Mutilated coin. Not an error and worth one cent.
(while trying not to scream) . . . no, it's just post mint damage, someone obviously scraped the date off.
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.
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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.
Some guy was killing time siting in his car in the parking lot by scraping the date off a cent with his pocketknife while his wife was shopping at Walmart.
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I wish I'd never seen a coin like that.
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OMG- Really. One of the rare scratch-off errors!
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.
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