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Thank you all for your feedback.
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Maybe it's a dime on a nickle? Can't happen unless someone at the mint "helps" it happen. And if they die it would be 21 mm in diameter not 17.9 If you are thinking a dime planchet punched from nickel strip, it would be much thicker than the regular dime, and it would still have a reeded edge. No this is just a fake. |
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A crude counterfeit. Why someone would bother is an entirely different question.
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For crying out loud, man, would you quit bumping old threads with "me, too" posts?
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I am not at all convinced that it is a fake! It looks odd and different and I have no explanation. However it looks too "professional" to be a fake. The position of the mint mark - is that near where we usually see it?  Edited by Pete2226
04/09/2015 06:43 am
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Definite fake - Loss of detail on high devices on the reverse. Loss of detail on the obverse, looks like the forger attempted to "hobo dime" their die used to make the fakes to give it the appearance of detail which just makes it look more fake in my opinion, lack of a rim, missing JS under roosevelt, and the font is different on both sides of the coin. The nose is what really makes me a good laugh about this coin.
I'd still keep it : D
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04/09/2015 07:10 am
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Whatever it is ....Keep It.
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The nose is what really makes me a good laugh about this coin.
Okay Okay - I'm convinced - fake!  |
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Whatever it is ....Keep It Wouldn't spending it be illegal anyway? |
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Sorry to bump a 6+ month old post, but a link to this post resurfaced on another thread, and I felt the need to put my 2 cents into it because I know there will potentially be more comments in the future..
Anyways, I guess my comment would have been why are these even being produced in the first place? The rim/thickness is the key indication here that something is wrong. If you paid $1.00 worth of quarters with a rim like so at Mcdonalds, maybe they'd not realize it, but if you handed them 10 dimes, that's a different story. Seems like the resources made to create a counterfeit dime would cost a lot more than any U.S. issued circulating denomination coin.
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Just roll it up and get it out of your sight!
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CoinHuntingDrew: In the other forum post the OP said it is magnetic and possibly came out of South America.
So, that leaves the magnetic metals and 15 years ago the metal must have been under 10 cents (They would have been better off using pre-1982 pennies to make copper dimes and plating them, it's cheap but also they would be committing 1 more crime). Today I also wondered if it could have been part of a magic trick before 2000? As to how they circulated, they could have been slipped in by a cashier OR rolled up with real dimes and turned in. (However some banks keep record of your account in case you over/underfill rolls, in which case they can trace the forgery to you)
Another thing: I thought the weakness of devices was due to weak strike/weak die. But this post looks more circulated (figures, it's 4 years later) than the other post. So either the rim isn't protecting the high points of the counterfeit OR it is a metal that easily wears away.
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