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Dime experts please
I know this may make you completely nuts with out a pic, nothing I can
do right now. Yes, I am still "grading" my coins. I always pull out weird things from circulation, stahs them away and forget about them. I did find an odd dime in this collection of crap. I'll do my best to discribe it so one of you may know what it is. Roosevelt 1967 First thing that caught my eye was the very heavy rim, copper and rounded over not square to the surface Shake your haed and move on!!! deep rim on obv and rev, some letters Y&T are only tails, "WE" is just the E I placed it on top of another dime and it sat inside it. So a little smaller. I then took a half dime and the half dime sits inside this odd one. Was there a 3/4 dime? The surface is hard to explain. All the characteristics of a Roose are there, they just look pitted? but a dull silver color. Any ideas what this could be with such a crappy discription? vbg Thanks for any help. Doris |
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Could have been trapped in a coin counter or other machine for months or
years, spinning long enough to fold up the edge. Or might have been done "just for fun" Or maybe to jam a vending machine someone hated. Or for a magic trick. Or maybe an emergency repair to some machine. In general, mint-made errors where coins are struck without the collar or multiple times are LARGER and thinner than normal coins. Some people collect mutilated oddities like this, might be worth a quarter to someone. -- RARE COIN AUCTIONS NO MINIMUMS http://www.frankcoins.com Ebay Powerseller FRANKCOINS Texas Auction License 11259 Board member of Texas Coin Dealers Association, Fort Worth Coin Club. Member: Texas Numismatic Assoc, American Numismatic Assoc. |
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Frank Provasek wrote:
Could have been trapped in a coin counter or other machine for months or years, spinning long enough to fold up the edge. Or might have been done "just for fun" Or maybe to jam a vending machine someone hated. Or for a magic trick. Or maybe an emergency repair to some machine. In general, mint-made errors where coins are struck without the collar or multiple times are LARGER and thinner than normal coins. Some people collect mutilated oddities like this, might be worth a quarter to someone. If there is a market for mutilated coins, I am wealthier than I knew. ;-) Alan 'has seen some beauts' |
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Frank,
Thanks, that is a great deal of ideas. I had never thought of most of them. Thanks again Doris http://community.webtv.net/Sonny305/VeryBADpicsofafew |
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Thanks Leo. I'm not sure I would say this one is "hammered" tho. way
to smooth on the rim. Perhaps I may have to invest in a camera.g Since I am not used to "asking" hubby, any suggestions out there? :-)))) Doris |
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"Leo M. Cavanaugh III" wrote:
On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 01:47:55 GMT, Alan & Erin Williams wrote: If there is a market for mutilated coins, I am wealthier than I knew. ;-) Same here, Alan. My brother-in-law sifted through the lint collector of an old industrial dryer. Ugly, ugly, *butt ugly* mutilated coins all, although some of them have spectacular toning. I've got some $200 worth of mutilated coins but the local branch office of the Federal Reserve says they don't deal with the public. Obviously no bank will accept them so I'm stuck for the time being. I'm purifying the money supply through roll searches. I keep all the Canadians and any coin which *I* consider to be degraded beyond usefulness. Since I have no problem re-rolling 'parking lot pennies', tarred, acid-etched, scarred, scraped and battered coins, you can imagine what state *those* are in. ;-) Alan 'the bent and folded' |
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On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 19:57:55 GMT, Alan & Erin Williams
wrote: "Leo M. Cavanaugh III" wrote: On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 01:47:55 GMT, Alan & Erin Williams wrote: If there is a market for mutilated coins, I am wealthier than I knew. ;-) Same here, Alan. My brother-in-law sifted through the lint collector of an old industrial dryer. Ugly, ugly, *butt ugly* mutilated coins all, although some of them have spectacular toning. I've got some $200 worth of mutilated coins but the local branch office of the Federal Reserve says they don't deal with the public. Obviously no bank will accept them so I'm stuck for the time being. I'm purifying the money supply through roll searches. I keep all the Canadians and any coin which *I* consider to be degraded beyond usefulness. Since I have no problem re-rolling 'parking lot pennies', tarred, acid-etched, scarred, scraped and battered coins, you can imagine what state *those* are in. ;-) Alan 'the bent and folded' yeah the state of 'Maryland' Gary hee hee!! |
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