Posted 04/13/2011 08:16 am
With no pic of it I can't speak for your 10 cent, but for the penny, it doesn't seem to be random mechanical damage - they seem to be hard-carved notches.
Why? one can only speculate. A bored soldier or sailor is one possible explanation; or maybe a counterfeiter perhaps hoping for a "milled edge" effect so he can silver-plate it and pass it off as a florin; perhaps a jeweller has rougheded up the edges so it grips better in a mount or bezel of some kind (though this I doubt, since it seems to have been a botched job, mangling the obverse legend).
Whatever the explanation, it seems to have been done some time ago, and to have seen circulation of some sort after it was done - the notches are toned the same colour as the coin (they're not fresh cuts) and there's dirt and stuff suck down in the deeper cuts.
Why? one can only speculate. A bored soldier or sailor is one possible explanation; or maybe a counterfeiter perhaps hoping for a "milled edge" effect so he can silver-plate it and pass it off as a florin; perhaps a jeweller has rougheded up the edges so it grips better in a mount or bezel of some kind (though this I doubt, since it seems to have been a botched job, mangling the obverse legend).
Whatever the explanation, it seems to have been done some time ago, and to have seen circulation of some sort after it was done - the notches are toned the same colour as the coin (they're not fresh cuts) and there's dirt and stuff suck down in the deeper cuts.
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