What could cause this on a nickel?

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• Steve27 Posts: 13,275 ✭✭✭

  August 27, 2006 9:53AM

  "What could cause this on a nickel?"
  
  Photo editing.

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• Bunker Posts: 3,926 ✭

  August 27, 2006 9:53AM

  A machine shop

  
  
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• topstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 27, 2006 9:54AM

  Then why send to a magazine to ask about what caused it?

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• pontiacinf Posts: 8,915 ✭✭

  August 27, 2006 9:56AM

  smoeone with solder and nothing better to do, as that sure didnt come out of the mint that way

  
  
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• JRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 27, 2006 9:59AM

  That reminds me of the movie "Independence Day"

  Some coins are just plain "Interesting"

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• leothelyon Posts: 8,489 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 27, 2006 1:17PM

  I was sent a picture and asked the same thing. And I'm as clueless as I was then. I'm guessing it was made post-mint and it's a form of symbolism. Figure out what that symbol may represent and then a internet search might provide an answer. But how does one search a symbol?
  
  Ah! symbols.com
  
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• topstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 28, 2006 2:58AM

  Symbol of a VULVA in Monticello? Maybe it's da WHITE HOUSE!!! Hillary !!!!!
  
  Sure good soldering to take it up between the B and U of BURPILUS and not touch the letters.
  But they do mintmark solders, so makes sense.
  
  ??????

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• Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭

  August 28, 2006 4:27AM

  Probaly not solder. Cut into the surface at an angle. Done properly it can create a raised line on the coin which is gently tamped back down to hide the evidence of the cut. Frequently seen done as X's in the field on larger coins and sometimes sold to newbies as "Struck from a cancelled die."

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