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DorkGirlDorkGirl Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭
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I know they are just scans, but is this a mint error, or something that happened post mint? Thanks for your helpimage

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Becky

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    ar18ar18 Posts: 1,122
    that looks double stuck on the reverse to me.

    Jeff
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    coinguy89coinguy89 Posts: 2,151
    Looks like you got yourself a double struck coin.image
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    nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    I think it;s an alteration. The distortion isn't there for double struck and that sure doesn't look like a cud.
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    gargoyle62gargoyle62 Posts: 268 ✭✭✭
    Still, a great find.....
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    jonathanbjonathanb Posts: 4,169 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Alteration, sorry. A real double-struck area couldn't be raised above the surface of the original strike.

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    darktonedarktone Posts: 8,437 ✭✭✭
    Looks like another coin was placed on top and then hit with a hammer. mike
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    seanqseanq Posts: 8,847 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It looks like solder to me. I think maybe this coin was a jewelry piece and soldered to another dime, and when the second coin broke away a fossilized pattern of the denticles was left behind.


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    DesertRatDesertRat Posts: 1,791 ✭
    Good eye Sean....I think that is a very plausible explanation.
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    coppercoinscoppercoins Posts: 6,084 ✭✭✭


    << <i>It looks like solder to me. I think maybe this coin was a jewelry piece and soldered to another dime, and when the second coin broke away a fossilized pattern of the denticles was left behind.


    Sean Reynolds >>



    My thought exactly...there's no way that could be an original mint error.
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