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Pillar of the Community
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is the diameter smaller and the rim wider?
Feel free to call me Will.
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Pillar of the Community
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The only thing I can think of is lamination issues. However, I wonder if some kind of acid could do something like this?  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Up till 1964 the mintmark was located on the reverse to the right of Monticello (the building that is) ,actually I am sitting about five miles west of it at the moment (Monticello, the building that is). Let me think about the rest
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Diameter is a touch smaller than normal & the rims are smaller and sort of rounded in. Weight is 4.8g... I'm thinking a severely distressed planchet got fed in and caused a low pressure type strike. That metal is firm but flaking like a lamination I've just never seen a lamination on both sides effecting the peripheral areas?... Pics coming
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Pillar of the Community
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Doh!, on the mm stone. Can't believe I did't realize that
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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
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Feel free to call me Will.
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Pillar of the Community
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Not thinking Dryer Coin would leave the flakes around the perimiter. Acid maybe, not sure how extreme heat would affect a nickel. Not talking about flames. Edited by stoneman227
06/26/2015 5:43 pm
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I think as it rolled, the metal pushed over the face of the coin and was then pushed over the remaining devices through circulation.
Feel free to call me Will.
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Pillar of the Community
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Bear with my conjecture, to me it's acid. The surface of a nickel can laminate. If acid can affect the lam layers it could take away the surface basically in layers. The upsetting mill when it forms the rim disturbs the layers at the edge and basically bonds them as it compresses them making them stronger thus making them the last to go.
Just conjecture.
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Bedrock of the Community
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It is a Dryer Coin.  Exactly how a Dryer Coin looks like. Increased edge thickness and reduced diameter. Acid dipped coins reduce the thickness and the diameter. PSD. No lamination issue. Just a damaged coin. |
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Bedrock of the Community
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It is nothing more than a Dryer Coin, the rim has been rolled over onto the peripheral devices which is what creates the flaking appearance. |
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Pillar of the Community
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I'm batting a thousand on Dryer Coins... no hits that is ! |
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Ya I can see it now. After dollar said dryer and folded over in circ it made sense upon further examination. Drats! Fooled me at first that's for sure
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Shows how malleable the alloy is. The foil actually shaped to the letters instead of cracking off.
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Posted 06/26/2015 4:55 pm
