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Valued Member
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It is a damaged coin after it left the mint .
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Pillar of the Community
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IMO it's PMD and can be easily made in a machine shop with a vertical hand press with the coin sandwiched between 2 smaller steel washers. |
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Canada
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Dryer coin. these things take on all kinds of different look, depending on the dryer make and exactly where it got stuck. PMD |
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Canada
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@ artdio...if you take a look at the "Bulleye" so to speak, you will notice that its really the only spot on the coin that has detail.
A Lathe job of some sort or as Broken-Coin or SPP suggest is probably what happened to this coin.
The small amount of detail which is sanded away, wouldnt effect the actual weight of the coin by much.
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01/31/2013 3:51 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I have a coin with similar damage (not the bullseye though), it was id as a Dryer Coin as well. Similar wear pattern, maybe yours got rescued earlier. |
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Ok so lets say its a Dryer Coin..Someone school me on how this happens? I have taken may apart and I have no idea where a coin would lodge itself and not get chewed up ? or damage the drum bearings |
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Here is a pic of how mine looks, I am not quite sure where it would hide exactly, but I imagine it would sit somewhere between the drum and space around the door. I've seen coins stuck in their before and they seem to just rattle around. You'll notice that the 12 sided rim has been rounded on mine which makes me think yours didn't spend as much time. Assuming that is the underlying cause, either way it is kind of a neat coin.  |
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600 grit sand is pretty fine stuff, in a tumbler it would not leave scratches, but a frosted surface... also depends what the sand is made of (e.g., quartz, garnet, titanite, etc...)
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Interesting that they are the same date though, didn't pick up on that at first. Funny coincidence.
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the date thing is kind of weird ? well its still a guess really ...@ SPP I still think the weight would be off or would the wear not be uniform with the sand paper theory ?
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United States
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If it was sandpapered I would think it weight less because metal will be "removed",a Dryer Coin shouldn't loose much weight because the metal is just being "moved" and not "removed". Just my Two Cent worth of info. John1 |
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@ john1  Any time I sanded metal at work or wood some material is removed and to me the weight would change.. With the amount of wear on this one The weight would surely be off.. Oh and another thought... All the theories on sandpaper are missing 1 thing... How could only the inside rev & obv be affected ..The rims are in tact and same thickness ? |
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Who said anything about sandpaper? Reread my original answer....
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My bad ...SPP .. No more late nights for me... So Sand ?hum? ..Ok next question.. would nt it still affect the coins rims aswell... and would that cause the bulls eye affect ?
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There is no wear. Smoothing or distressing, caused by something like a dryer would not decrease the weight.
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