Show Your Vandalized Coins

Mother nature showed what she could do to a Zincoln left outside for too long. In hand I can barley make out it was a Lincoln zincer.

When I was young kid, I used to think U.S. coins/currency were U.S. gov't property and it was against the law to damage/vandalize them.

I'm sitting here laughing Mark. You know, you're right! I did the same thing.

Something else I just thought of as I was reading your post.... I must have made a good half dozen Lincoln 1914 D's from 1944 D's and sold them to kids on the block. I used a utility knife and scrape down both sides of the first 4, which leaves the center line of the 4 in place. Then I would use a pencil eraser to smooth it down.

There were three older (wise guy) kids living down the street that I knew collect and looked through coins. I put the 14-D in with a handful of other penny's. I don't remember, but they must have all been wheat cents back then. I took them down the street and asked them if they wanted to buy them. It was great watching their faces when they first realized it was a 14-D.

That never happened. I must have been 10 or 11 at the time. They never found out. At least not by me.

I don't know. I can tell you one thing. I had not thought of that in many many years, until Mark refreshed my memory. I should have been a counter-fitter.

I don't know about that - can you get CCF on the prison computers

1890 Republica Peruana.
1/2 dino.