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Moderator
 United States
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Could they be fakes and someone marked them so they won't be worth anything to anybody? Just a thought. John1 
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
5828 Posts |
I was thinking that as well, John1, but the VDB on the 1909 S looks to be correct, although I'm not 100% sure about the mint mark it looks pretty good to me. As for the 1914 D, I wish I could get a better, closer, look at the date/MM. Seller looks good, so id assume they are real.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
11951 Posts |
Got to be .... A guy was spending so much time with his coin collection. When he is was away at a coin show, his wife figured out a way to get his attention .... leaving her marks on his prized coins 
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Rest in Peace
United States
17900 Posts |
Came home to the wife once to often with beer on your breath. Scissors and a mad wife.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Valued Member
United States
106 Posts |
looks more like a heavy duty industrial stapler was employed...but could not quite pierce the penny....
a mindless act....
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
12844 Posts |
Another opinion... some bored kid with dikes (diagonal cutters) damaging cents he had no clue about. The dikes may have had a notch in them already.
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Valued Member
United States
424 Posts |
They look like good candidates to put through the next elongated coin machine I come across.
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Valued Member
United States
106 Posts |
dikes leave a wedge or "V" shaped mark....these marks have parallel edges like a staple that tried to penetrate and then folded over...
or possibly R2D2 bite them in a fit?
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
12844 Posts |
Good point, Hrny.
Regardless I think it was a bored kid doing bored things in dad's shop one summer that dragged on too long. Yes, many years ago that kid could have been me.
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Moderator
 United States
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Valued Member
United States
62 Posts |
Looks like real coins that are verrrry devalued!!!
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Valued Member
United States
106 Posts |
Celticknot I hear you....I was just such a kid...I was not malicious, just curious...far too curious.....thousands of years in the murky past...
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Valued Member
Canada
109 Posts |
This looks familiar! About 40 years ago I found this cent in a box of a relative's model airplane parts, from the good old days when all the parts were homemade. I always presumed he did it himself for some reason, but now I'm not so sure. Nothing valuable like the OP's photos, but very similar.  
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
20753 Posts |
Makes you wonder who and why.
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