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Not a torch. This is not Firescale. Firescale is random wherever the heat goes it goes. These waves are all in the same direction. And no blowback burning in opposite direction even if the torch was on an angle. I'm sticking with the rare error in the link I posted. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.in...mp_page=trueEdited by NEWmrMatic
02/28/2023 10:54 am
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NEWmrMatic thank you for you're input. Got to say replies got me fired up a little (pun intended). Not really been a error collector mostly a Wheat cent nut. I've been keeping odd looking finds in tubes for years. Have 11 tubes and counting. Over 90% are lamination examples (some monsters). Posting a few other oddities from a tube today. Thanks to everyone at Coin Community I really value your input and will continue to contribute to this wonderful site. |
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I just did an experiment with a Dremel and wire brush. The steel brush left linear scratches in a 72 cent and a bronze brush , if held in a static position, began to pull up small ripples that are smaller but similar to the op's coin. The right softness of wire bristle on a rotary power tool could give a coin with the op's look.
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02/28/2023 12:34 pm
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Wow a power tool and wire brush on a copper cent? IDK how you'd get that wavy look. Would love to see you're example in comparison. Heat or a chemical application would be more plausible then a power tool and wire brush. Nothing I've heard thus far fully satisfies my curiosity about this odd ball coin. IDK maybe chemical application with a wire brush then heat applied? lol
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Better keep my trap shut on this one. same here - my suggestion got shot down without any concrete proof but some random websites that show nothing like this (But hey! thanks the the jewelry making site anyway) |
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These coins get called heat. I don't think so. As you said, it would take a lot of experience with a torch to heat up just the inside to the point of melting and not harm the outer surface. In fact I've ran a torch from the 7th grade till my retirement, and I don't think it can be done. But what I think they are are sandblasted with glass beads. Sand would leave the surface sharp, but beads would leave the surface smooth and wavy.
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This is a terrible phone camera pic. (it'll be a week before I'm near my camera setup) . This showes the waves created by a motor driven wire brush on a copper cent. Different hardness of wire should created different waves. A telling factor is how the brush skips over the high points of the design and forms the shape of the design as it drops down to meet the field.  |
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Well to sum things up,what ever caused it, it is not an error it is PMD.Do we agree on that? John1  |
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Sounds like a plan to me.
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Don't recall seeing a working die altered in this fashion. I'm thinking the coin was altered after strike. Thanks, Doug.
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Nice example Stoneman - great experiment. thanks. Yes John, PMD all the way around |
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Lol sorry. The craft website is a DIY that involves torching a Penny. Someone mentioned it was a torch burn. And who wouldn't want to know how to make penny jewelry? Lol you're welcome.
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02/28/2023 7:40 pm
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Yes I would say my curiosity is satisfied, thanks everyone. Just got to say; Why on Gods green earth would someone do that to honest Abe? It's disgusting to this old man.
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Just as an update I've found a few more strikingly similar to this one in three tubes I examined yesterday. Also found some possible grease struck through examples. I post pictures later. Wife has me working on the house today.
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stoneman227 please let us know when you're "camera set-up" can display better pics. While you're pics resembles this coin I'm still not ready to toss this in a cull pile. If you can produce these characteristics in a pre-1982 cent with a mechanical wire brush I'd love to see pics.
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