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Error People - Opinions on this Dime, please

MrSpudMrSpud Posts: 4,499 ✭✭✭
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A coworker showed this coin to me today. He found it in circulation. I can't tell if it is an error coin or not. It almost looks ground down, only there are no signs of abrasion like would happen if it was ground down. I asked him if he would let me post a picture so I could get the opinion of some of the error experts here on the board. What is going on with this one? An error? Post-mint damage? Thanks, in advance, for any opinions.

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  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,257 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Weird.
  • jonathanbjonathanb Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Held against a polishing wheel, I think.
  • tightbudgettightbudget Posts: 7,299 ✭✭✭
    I found a nickel like this once and to me, it appears to have been done after it left the mint.
  • LALASD4LALASD4 Posts: 3,602 ✭✭✭
    Damaged.
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  • WhatafindWhatafind Posts: 432
    HuMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM- This one for Fred or Sean .
    I do not think it was a wheel , metel does not look right for that. and why use your time do all that work for pennys.
    Dose it looked dip?
    There be alot of rouge that would mud up the unit to clean it , so it was not cleaned by a ultrasonic unit.
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  • JRoccoJRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Post mint damage.
    Some coins are just plain "Interesting"
  • DesertRatDesertRat Posts: 1,791 ✭
    belt sander with 1200 grit
    The Musical Road
  • laxmaster92laxmaster92 Posts: 777
    Post mint damage, you can tell by the clad showing through.
  • yellowjacketyellowjacket Posts: 1,809 ✭
    Couldn't you tell if it's been on the grinding wheel by weighing it?

    It does resemble somewhat the effect you get from a broadstrike on a type 1 planchet that hadn't gone through the upsetting process.

    I have a 1944 merc that has this look.

    Garrow
  • seanqseanq Posts: 8,735 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That is accelerated wear and not a Mint error. The coin probably spent a lot of time in a washing machine or drier or something similar.


    Sean Reynolds
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  • beepbeep Posts: 968
    I vote clothesdryer too. Bang Bang Bang on the rim ...over and over and over.
  • errormavenerrormaven Posts: 1,170 ✭✭✭
    The missing parts of the design were ground off. Telltale signs include the exposure of the copper core along the outer perimeter and the absence of the proto-rim of the unstruck planchet. I see these kinds of alterations all the time.
    Mike Diamond is an error coin writer and researcher. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those held by any organization I am a member of.
  • LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭
    It looks like damage to me.
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  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,748 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's damaged. Probably with a file but there are many ways to plane the face of a coin. Note
    that even some of the higher points on the reverse still have mint luster while the entire cladding
    layer is stripped away in spots. This can't happen naturally and implies a very hard instrument
    or surface was employed against it.
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