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Rest in Peace
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Hi guys Found this 2011 dime in my pocket that has a groove in the rime all round the coin...Funny thing is it is dead centre on the rim...Anyone know what could have caused that...?   |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Aw, crap, now I have to check all of my dimes now. Thanks! :)
Does the groove stop at any point(s)? Is the face damaged?
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Rest in Peace
 1988 Posts |
No Libertad
It goes completely around the coin...Does not stop anywhere.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
632 Posts |
Interesting!
Looks like the depthness and thickness are the same regardless if inside the denticles or in the surface. If this is correct, it can only be after mint (if the grove was there before, the flow of metal would deform the grove).
At any rate, great find!
(and this is just my opinion)
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 Canada
10460 Posts |
Some types of bezel coin mounts (so it can be hung on a chain) would do that to the rim.
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
9865 Posts |
Having a garage sale here today lots of change to look thru.
Found two 2011 dimes with the same ridge,must be imparted by the collar.
Two hours later and I've found a 2010 and 2012 with the same ridge,now I'm really curious,don't look often enough at the third side of the coin..
Edited by DBM
08/19/2012 4:31 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
632 Posts |
I am stumped. If the collar had a lip like that, it would be an obstacle to the feeding/ejection.
... need some rolls of ... ugh ... dimes ...
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
9865 Posts |
Garage sale is over and now that I examine them with a loupe they appear to have been struck in a split collar,or perhaps with no collar.Is this a new technology at the mint?
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Canada
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I have some 2010-2012 BU 10-cent rolls. Perhaps it is time to do some squinting and check my 10 rolls...
"Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I've got some rolls around here somewhere I'll be checking later if I have time.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
632 Posts |
Please post the result. This is quite interesting. Thanks Wert for posting.
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Canada
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Wert, I remember when you first came on CCF... I am really, really impressed with your observation skills (and I don't impress easily in that category). You see things that are different, as opposed to looking for something that _should_ be there... Good eye!! Are you sure you were not a geologist in your former life? 
"Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Rest in Peace
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Thanks SPP, coming from you means a lot...Hey, I am not a coin expert, but I guess I have an eye for what should not be there...Thanks again my friend.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
9865 Posts |
Garage sale is over,beer is all gone,no need to peer through my loupe in bright sunlight.Things look a lot a lot different now,the line is not raised anywhere it is incuse at all points,the bright sunlight and beer combined to create an optical delusion.
The gouge,I believe,is cut in the blank during the rimming proccess,striking does not fully fill the groove and there is nothing to impede the withdrawal from the collar.
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08/19/2012 10:29 pm
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New Member
United States
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This got me looking through my Dimes and found a 2004P DIME with the same thing...
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Rest in Peace
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KLTCOINS...I presume you are talking about a Canadian dime...?
Can you post a picture of it for us to see...?
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Posted 08/16/2012 10:49 pm
