Something Is Really Wrong With This 2000 D Dime! Please Help

Whatever it is ....Keep It.

Nice counterfeit lol

Sorry to bump a 6+ month old post, but a link to this post resurfaced on another thread, and I felt the need to put my 2 cents into it because I know there will potentially be more comments in the future..


Anyways, I guess my comment would have been why are these even being produced in the first place? The rim/thickness is the key indication here that something is wrong. If you paid $1.00 worth of quarters with a rim like so at Mcdonalds, maybe they'd not realize it, but if you handed them 10 dimes, that's a different story. Seems like the resources made to create a counterfeit dime would cost a lot more than any U.S. issued circulating denomination coin.

CoinHuntingDrew: In the other forum post the OP said it is magnetic and possibly came out of South America.
So, that leaves the magnetic metals and 15 years ago the metal must have been under 10 cents (They would have been better off using pre-1982 pennies to make copper dimes and plating them, it's cheap but also they would be committing 1 more crime). Today I also wondered if it could have been part of a magic trick before 2000? As to how they circulated, they could have been slipped in by a cashier OR rolled up with real dimes and turned in. (However some banks keep record of your account in case you over/underfill rolls, in which case they can trace the forgery to you)

Another thing: I thought the weakness of devices was due to weak strike/weak die. But this post looks more circulated (figures, it's 4 years later) than the other post. So either the rim isn't protecting the high points of the counterfeit OR it is a metal that easily wears away.