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maybe something about the cod fishery?
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I saw that same coin on a Facebook post yesterday. Quote:
or as though someone's been beating the rim prior to turning it into a ring. A silver 5c, that would be a pretty small ring! "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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I saw that same coin on a Facebook post yesterday. yes I saw it too , you also confimed its real |
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At least one of the people on the FB thread think it's straight up fake. I guess I don't know for sure - this drier thing is new to me.
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can still be a Dryer Coin. and it probably is. the weight could tell us a lot. The photo title by the OP says: fake. If it is real it is an obv 3, the lower cost coin of the 2 varieties. when enlarging the coin ( bad resolution) it becomes obvious that the rim looks like a dryer rim. There is no reason IMO why it could not be a Dryer Coin making the acquaintance with a new dryer within the last few years. If someone would want to fake this 5 cent. Then it would be logical that they would make an obv 2 instead obv 3. would be the same work and a much bigger profit for the same effort. Just saying |
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That's a solid point 47P7.
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Pillar of the Community
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why would a 1888 nickel end up in a dryer?
This coin has probably been spooned making it look fake.
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Pillar of the Community
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the OP should weigh the coin and check the Diameter.
Spooned? not ruled out.
it used to happen in prisons when inmates had nothing to do. then they used a spoon and tapped the rim to make it eveny smaller. Why? they had tons of time and...."to fool future generations of collectors?) In that case, perhaps there should still be the tap marks visible on the rim? maybe not?
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If you go ahead and click on the link here for " Dryer Coin" you will see a post I just made that concerned a modern Canadian dime and what it looked like when caught between the drum and the seal. It was reduced in size some and had the rim slightly raised. This coin is a Dryer Coin. |
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I'd like to know why you think this would end up in a dryer in the 1800's, Okie? The first clothes dryers were invented 1937 and they were not the clothes dryers you see today. Please explain why you think it was damaged in a clothes dryer.
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Wikipedia shows electric clothes dryers becoming available in the 1950's but not really taking off until the 1960's. Already by then NL coinage had stopped circulating.
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All I can say is that it was in someone's pocket NOW, not in the 1800's. The coin looks like a Dryer Coin, but maybe it isn't. I've fished 1859 large cents out of the bottom of my washing machine, more than once. I use them as golfball markers and give them away as such. |
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Deductible..
WHO says it was in the 18hundreds? or whenever
it could have been in a dryer just yesterday!!
who cares when dryers were first introduced...maybe it was spooned and dried..
it could have gone through the drying cycle many dozens of times, maybe with several dryers before even being noticed that it was in some secret pocket in some pant pocket...
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The person who posted this coin on Facebook says Rod (owner of East Coast Coins) declared this a fake upon first glance. Maybe that's all it is? 47P7, for the coin to just go through dryer cycles while being stuck in a pocket would not create the damage this coin has suffered. That is not how Dryer Coins are created. All the same, I'd like to see this coin in hand. Cheers! |
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Deductible
the link u posted is very interesting. But I have my daubt that it is the only way. Not everyone has commercial dryers.
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