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Notice anything unusual about the dime in the center? OBVERSE:  REVERSE:  I'll give you a moment.... |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The dime was handled by too many people?
Kenny
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 United States
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Now, look at the edge:  The coin is magnetic, which is how I stumbled on it. Other than those two things, it is a very passable dime. It weighs 2.4 grams, just like other dimes. Diamter is a match, and thickness is a match. |
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United States
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Kenny - You're too fast for me! But now you see what I was aiming to present.
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United States
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Fake of corse, a pretty bad one at that
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United States
256 Posts |
In the picture, the obverse looks much worse than it does in person. Looking just at the obverse/reverse, I don't think anyone would question it's a legitimate dime if handed this coin in change. If I hadn't stumbled into finding out it's magnetic, I would not have given it a second thought myself.
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United States
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It does make me wonder why anyone would counterfeit a dime. It would probably take 100,000 of these to break even on the tooling alone.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I've seen something like that. The word"copy" was amungst the EPU.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Didn't Henning try that back in the 50s?
Wasn't it a catastrophic failure?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It wasn't a catastrophic failure. He did break even on the venture.
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United States
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I'd bet it was made in China, like everything else.  |
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It does make me wonder why anyone would counterfeit a dime. It would probably take 100,000 of these to break even on the tooling alone. I agree with that thinking but people do stuff like that all the time. As you mentioned it would take a real lot of Dimes to sort of break even. And the worse part is they are making common, every day dates so not even worth a lot Numismatically. That famous guy many years ago that counterfeited $1 bills, only used them for ecentials such as food and clothing. But then a dollar back in the 20's or 30's was worth something. a Dime? I don't even see gum ball machines that take less than a quarter. Pop machines too now take currency. A Dime? Anyone old emough to remember when a phone call was a Dime? |
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I remember when candy bars and phone calls were a dime.  |
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Canada
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Nobody really expects counterfeit coins anymore, especially cheap ones.
And dimes are so small it's hard to see any large mistakes on them.
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t does make me wonder why anyone would counterfeit a dime. It would probably take 100,000 of these to break even on the tooling alone. Those are bad but thats actually one way to stay off the radar. Most counterfitters get caught getting greedy and going for large bills. Nothing gets the Secret Services attention faster than large bills. Hopefully its just someone who did one for fun and isn't putting out massive batches |
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