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Two valuable coins, seemingly defaced with the same tool.  Coin collecting spouse caught cheating - revenge? 281925233338 272122390025Show your financial support of the Coin Community Family (click here)See my topic on Mexican Numismatic Medals (click here) |
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A possible reason popped into my mind.
Someone without understanding (nor sense) was trying to mount these items into jewelry by crimping staple-like pieces of metal to hold the coins in place.
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These coins appear to be legitimate... I concur that they could've been mounted in jewelry.
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Could they be fakes and someone marked them so they won't be worth anything to anybody? Just a thought. John1  |
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I was thinking that as well, John1, but the VDB on the 1909 S looks to be correct, although I'm not 100% sure about the mint mark it looks pretty good to me. As for the 1914 D, I wish I could get a better, closer, look at the date/MM. Seller looks good, so id assume they are real.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Got to be .... A guy was spending so much time with his coin collection. When he is was away at a coin show, his wife figured out a way to get his attention .... leaving her marks on his prized coins  |
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Came home to the wife once to often with beer on your breath. Scissors and a mad wife.
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looks more like a heavy duty industrial stapler was employed...but could not quite pierce the penny....
a mindless act....
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Another opinion... some bored kid with dikes (diagonal cutters) damaging cents he had no clue about. The dikes may have had a notch in them already.
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They look like good candidates to put through the next elongated coin machine I come across.
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Valued Member
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dikes leave a wedge or "V" shaped mark....these marks have parallel edges like a staple that tried to penetrate and then folded over...
or possibly R2D2 bite them in a fit?
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Bedrock of the Community
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Good point, Hrny.
Regardless I think it was a bored kid doing bored things in dad's shop one summer that dragged on too long. Yes, many years ago that kid could have been me.
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Looks like real coins that are verrrry devalued!!!
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Celticknot I hear you....I was just such a kid...I was not malicious, just curious...far too curious.....thousands of years in the murky past...
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Posted 02/06/2016 09:13 am
