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Can someone help identify this coin?
HeatherK
Posts: 6
Hi everyone,
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I was browsing around and found the board, everyone seems to be pretty knowledged about coins.
Anyway, I recently found a coin at my house, and I'm just trying to figure out if this is a rare misprint of some kind, or something that somebody just altered on their own. I wanna find out what the heck is wrong with this thing!
I haven't taken any pictures, but if anyone is interested I will try to take some and get them posted. I'll try and describe it best I can, but, i'm no expert!
Okay, so i have a dime which is from the year 1997, has a little P over the year, if that's anything important. Simply a normal dime on the front. Nothing at all different from any other coin, not flat. The back is mostly silver with some areas of copper around the edges. It's totally flat except for the area right in the center, almost a small raised circle with short bits of line where the torch would be. The top looks somewhat pinched, but it's not visible from the front. The edges of the coin have ridges.
So can anyone help to identify this coin for me? I didn't think much of it at first, but the fact that the back is flat, and the front is perfect, I don't see how anyone could flatten only one side of a coin.
Let me know if pictures are needed, and i'll try and get them up soon! I'll check back on the board, but anyone could also email me:
penguin3890@aol.com
Thanks!
Heather
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I was browsing around and found the board, everyone seems to be pretty knowledged about coins.
Anyway, I recently found a coin at my house, and I'm just trying to figure out if this is a rare misprint of some kind, or something that somebody just altered on their own. I wanna find out what the heck is wrong with this thing!
I haven't taken any pictures, but if anyone is interested I will try to take some and get them posted. I'll try and describe it best I can, but, i'm no expert!
Okay, so i have a dime which is from the year 1997, has a little P over the year, if that's anything important. Simply a normal dime on the front. Nothing at all different from any other coin, not flat. The back is mostly silver with some areas of copper around the edges. It's totally flat except for the area right in the center, almost a small raised circle with short bits of line where the torch would be. The top looks somewhat pinched, but it's not visible from the front. The edges of the coin have ridges.
So can anyone help to identify this coin for me? I didn't think much of it at first, but the fact that the back is flat, and the front is perfect, I don't see how anyone could flatten only one side of a coin.
Let me know if pictures are needed, and i'll try and get them up soon! I'll check back on the board, but anyone could also email me:
penguin3890@aol.com
Thanks!
Heather
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Cameron Kiefer
Welcome to the forums! Yes- a pic is needed. But just to take a pre-pic stab at it, I'll guess it's a bubble in the planchet?
Just from your discription,I'd think it has been put on a grinding/buffing wheel.
Pics are needed to be sure though.
It's a post-mint alteration.
Why would somebody do it? Who knows?
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Al
I guess it would be easier if you were able to actually hold it and see first hand and everything. I'll probably take it to a coin dealer or somewhere to get an opinion from them also. I'm no coin collector, but I've basically never seen a coin like this before, so I guess I'm just really interested to find out why it looks like this and all... I suppose this is how you get hooked on a hobby like this, eh??
Thanks again!
It looks like it was made into a tie-tac & the pin came off. The lump is where the pin was soldered on.
And welcome to coin collecting
Al
have seen similar before
Welcome to the boards!
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Cameron Kiefer
<< <i>I like you're icon Heather.
Cameron Kiefer >>
Thanks... I had to register and everything to be able to post on the board... so I picked an icon at random, but turned out to be the seagull from Finding Nemo... I love that movie
and yes, the pin explanation sounds very logical, so thank you to everyone for helping!
Cameron Kiefer
Probably was a Golf marker at one time.