Looks like somebody was bored in their garage. What we have here is a combination vise job with a hole drilled into it.
The OP asks "Why would anybody do this?"
Because people are weird.
Perhaps somebody got fooled by the "doubling", thinking they had a valuable error, then when they were told it was just a vise job, they got mad and drilled a hole in it.
Perhaps somebody wanted to see what would happen if you took a whole stack of coins and tried to drill a hole straight through all of them, and the "doubling" was caused by pressure from the drill.
We don't know, we weren't in the garage watching them vandalize coins. But a vandalized coin, this now is. Not a mint error, guaranteed. Technically, a coin counting machine will no longer recognize it so it's now "mutilated" and isn't even legally worth one cent any more, it's just scrap metal now.
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Posted 05/30/2024 10:19 am
Angry person with a vice and drill. 
