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hockingzig
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Posted 02/08/2010  11:19 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add hockingzig to your friends list  Get a Link to this Message

I found this nickel roll searching a few days ago. The wear on it makes me think it never had a rim on it. Is that possible? and if not how do you account for the even wear?





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Posted 02/08/2010  11:23 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add bmanofnbc to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

looks like somebodys pocket piece or "worry stone" to me
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Posted 02/08/2010  11:31 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add nod2003 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

That is the most worn Jeff nickel I have seen.
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Posted 02/08/2010  3:10 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Pocket_Change to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

Looks like it spent time in a drier.
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Posted 02/08/2010  7:06 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add LuckyDIme to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

Would stand to reason, no rim then the coin will wear on the surface faster.
I have found a few pennies lately with no rim and the edges are tapered on about a 30 % bevel
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I don't think it is a dryer coin because the lower parts that are not worn don't look banged around like other dryer nickels I have seen. There is also no "spooning effect" on the edges. Dryer was my first thought too but looking at the way the wear is I ruled that out(at least I don't think that is the cause).
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Posted 02/08/2010  8:36 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add mikediamond to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

It has been intentionally abraded.
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jasper62
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Posted 02/08/2010  8:43 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jasper62 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

I had to look it up


Main Entry: abrade
Pronunciation: \#601;-#712;brād\
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): abrad·ed; abrad·ing
Etymology: Latin abradere to scrape off, from ab- + radere to scrape - more at rodent
Date: 1677
transitive verb
1 a : to rub or wear away especially by friction : erode b : to irritate or roughen by rubbing
2 : to wear down in spirit : irritate, weary
intransitive verb
: to undergo abrasion

- abrad·able \-#712;brā-d#601;-b#601;l\ adjective

- abrad·er noun


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hockingzig
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Posted 02/09/2010  11:45 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add hockingzig to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

Thanks Mike. That was my second choice after the no rim theory. Weird thing about it,and lends credibility to the intentional abrasion answer is the extreme bevel on the edges of the coin so some high spots still remain while the rim is very thin.
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Exactly hockingzig, the only way you can have a beveled rim is if it was intentionally abraded/removed.
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