| Author |
 Replies: 18 / Views: 3,737 |
|
New Member
United States
7 Posts |
My Dad was a theater manager and got this in a roll of quarters at his theater. I remember him telling me how he had to give up a couple days pay to make his register balance... It cost him 24 cents to make up the difference....I have never seen anything like this anywhere else but I am not a collector. What do you professionals think of it.   |
|
|
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
6478 Posts |
 Really interesting though. |
|
Bedrock of the Community
 United States
12813 Posts |
Cool piece. I seem to recall a thread here in the past couple of years that's got a cent seated in a collar like that.
This one appears to have been in the collar for quite a while... there's a gouge at 1 o'clock on the reverse that is visible on both the cent and the collar (there's another one at 3:30 too).
Is there anything visible on the edge that might indicate there was once a loop mounted for a chain (thinking an necklace)?
|
|
New Member
 United States
7 Posts |
it has been a box for 50 + years.. It was never a necklace... the edges are clean...
|
|
Pillar of the Community
Canada
2517 Posts |
Squeezed into a copper pipe perhaps?
|
|
Pillar of the Community
Canada
4227 Posts |
I'm sure I've seen a thread on a coin like this on this site before, but finding it will be the problem. Having something to do with a pipe seems to ring a bell.
|
|
Valued Member
United States
293 Posts |
This is an interesting piece. It is not a broadstrike error (Look at the 1999-P Jefferson nickel in this link for a good example of a broadstrike: (052) Not Allowed - Auto-Removed .com/broadstrikeminterror.html#.VX3B7UZH5Yg) --- the rim is just too perfectly uniform for that. That being said this still is an interesting piece. This is the kind of stuff that can and does bring big money at a local auction. |
|
Pillar of the Community
Canada
2517 Posts |
|
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
3463 Posts |
Making two threads about the same coin is confusing.
Edited by cwb
06/14/2015 2:55 pm
|
|
Bedrock of the Community
United States
12437 Posts |
|
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
3463 Posts |
Well that is an interesting story.
|
|
Pillar of the Community
Canada
4227 Posts |
That's the thread I was thinking of, biokemist, thanks (although the pipe one must have been in my subconscious too).
|
|
Bedrock of the Community
United States
17884 Posts |
Yes I have seen them before.
|
|
Bedrock of the Community
United States
19931 Posts |
Made to pass for a quarter.
|
|
New Member
United States
7 Posts |
yep that is what it is .....so is it illegal for me to own it ?
|
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
1512 Posts |
No, not illegal to own, just don't try to use it in place of a Quarter. That WOULD be illegal!
|
| |
Replies: 18 / Views: 3,737 |
Posted 06/14/2015 1:23 pm
