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There are some coins for which holes do not significantly reduce value; these are coin types for which, for whatever reason, finding them without holes is difficult. Two that stand out for me are certain 19th century Ottoman gold coins, and ZAR (Boer Republic) gold veldponds. In both cases, the majority (or a significantly large minority) of surviving examples are found with holes. Unholed ones still command a premium, of course, just not as much of one as you might think.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Not rare, but still worth less with the hole:  (I don't have a good pic of this one.) |
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Pillar of the Community
Norway
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Severe damage, like holes, certainly kills the value of a coin. Truly sorry to see the examples posted here so far, it makes me sad to see coins being treated like that.
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Japan
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Canada
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"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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Canada
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"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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United States
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Oh my!  |
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Valued Member
Canada
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those fishscales with holes are real pain for some collectors, just seeing it causes a physical reaction I too have felt the pain of seeing a hole in an otherwise perfectly good coin, seeing this thread reminded me of one of my detecting finds from a few years back one of my McCausland pennies (Ch#PE-2) ,,not necessarily a 'perfectly good' example but,,with an old square nail hole in it... I have this catalogued under the heading "square and rare" and "old and holed"  |
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United States
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Every one should remember that back when those coins were new, they were just coins. Sort of like today someone drilling a hole in a new Washington quarter or a 2015 Lincoln Cent. Someday in about 100 years someone will be saying OH! NO. |
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United States
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Oh no!  |
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