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New Member
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Pillar of the Community
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My guess is heat damage and tooling damage outside the mint. Don't think it left the left looking like this at all.
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Moderator
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Looks like acid damage to me. John1  |
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 Could acid do that to the rim? Looks like a railroad rim to me.... |
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A railroad rim is a smaller diameter on one side and a larger diameter on the other. It is not a smaller diameter only in the middle. This is caused by acid erosion. The acid eats away the copper faster than the outer clad layers.
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Bedrock of the Community
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It is not railroad rim. You can see where acid removed the copper in the cladding. Looks also Iike it was in a fire. Either way spendable. Probably won't work in a vending machine.
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Pillar of the Community
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I agree with the acid removed and maybe in a fire opinion.Good news is it is still spendable.
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Thanks guys.
I really couldn't imagine that acid would eat away at the rim like that. It's good to know.
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Pillar of the Community
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It's possible that this coin could have been held in a bezel. I've seen rims on "lucky pennies" that are similar.
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thank you everyone, wow it was interesting topic and I ve learned something new from ya all
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Pillar of the Community
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That coin looks like a fountain coin and it was probably fashioned for jewelry with that tooled rim being there to hold a collar and ring for a necklace. I bought a bag of fountain coins just for fun and to see whats in them, got some nice ones out of it, lots of them looked just like that but without the rim.
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Bedrock of the Community
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If it were held in a bezel, the rims would be flattened.
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United States
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I have actually seen a couple of coins with an edge like this. I have found them metal detecting in areas where the coins get extremely corroded. I'm not sure what it is that causes it, but you can find coins that look like that or worse and feet away that are perfect other than discoloration.
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Pillar of the Community
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I beleive this coin was either buried and suffered chemical reaction from soils or was in a fountain type situation with the coin suffering from a reaction of chemicals in the water. The edge I believe now after looking at more rim errors is a fairly common "partial collar" error..IMHO
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A partial collar error doesn't look like this. This is damage.
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