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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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I REALLY do think that this one is a fake, and I don't particularly care who may have considered it to be genuine.
It is relatively easy to hub a die off a coin with a little bit of professional metalworking skill, in a machinist's shop.
This is the product of such a die being struck into a nail for test purposes.
The die was most probably subsequently used to strike fake dimes.
Charles M. Larson in his book
'Numismatic Forgery' shows in detail, how this can be done.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Its a cool piece for sure, but that design is far to centered for me to think this was a freak accident. The entire history of the mint and only one nail was struck that escapes and it just so happens to be basically perfectly centered....
That said it shouldnt detract from the value how it happened, all that really matters is that it exists
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3644 Posts |
Interesting point and you'd think if this wasnt caught there'd have to be some seriously damaged dimes minted subsequent to this that made it out? Guess that could of been caught early tho
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Not the first nail basebal. See my previous post and also search "nail" in the box here  |
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Bedrock of the Community
13014 Posts |
Ah yes that ms 63 one. Which again happens to be remarkably centered for the amount of surface area there was to work with.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1005 Posts |
If it was found in a box of nails that would make it even curiouser.
I always keep "error" screws and nails I find. I keep a small jar in the shop for them.
Not going to find one of these. Usually only missing threads or heads or flattened.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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OMG it made national news promoting the auction saying the bid is at $3200 currently. Boy does heritage have pull or what. Funny hearing the commentators wondering how it could've happened. One said they thought a dime and a nail was on a railroad track together. The other thought it must have "fell in there"  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Are US dimes available in bulk bags, more curious how it made it out of the mint.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Surprised fox didnt try to pin it on obama  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Glad one of you guys said it before I did - this was most likely purposeful, and shouldn't have even been slabbed.
Hope they got caught.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7390 Posts |
If I see one single commercial with William Devane hawking this nail I'm switching to CNN. |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
21786 Posts |
Something tells me that this nail never saw the inside of a mint.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Something tells me that this nail never saw the inside of a mint. The US mint has a long rich history of employee made purposeful great errors or "blunders". Being intentional would really make it more likely that it almost certainly came from the Mint with the history of that |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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I am aware the that the '13 Liberty Head nickel was made clandestinely by Mint employees. I dunno about this one though. I have my doubts.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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I am aware the that the '13 Liberty Head nickel was made clandestinely by Mint employees. There has been a lot more than that. This is one of those things its so absurd it kinda leads you to the conclusion of employees having fun on its own. Id actually be more suspect of it if it didnt look so perfectly targeted by employees to make an interesting thing. Obviously now with cameras the fun is kind of removed from the minting game, but many of the great "errors" we can thank human ingenuity for |
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