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In a junk bin, I found this 1965 dime. I'm pretty sure that it's my first major error coin! It looks to be rotated about 135 degrees. Just as a note, the images are flipped sideways, not vertically.   |
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It is an error, but it's not worth much, especially with that big gouge. I don't know what the value would be but I'll take a stab at it and say that it is probably worth less the $0.50.
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Sweet! I only paid $0.20 for it, so I consider that Twenty Cents well spent. |
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Well, I guess you can't lose much on a 20 cent purchase. Interesting coin!
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Looks like it is surrounded with a copper ring? John1  |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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I think you have two separate dimes glued together and shoved inside a ring.
I have some experience with gluing cents together and shoving them into wooden rings for my local coin club. Hours of experience and very sore thumbs.....
Take it out of the 2X2 and see how tall it is compared to a dime.
Edited by Buddy
05/13/2016 8:01 pm
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If that is a ring, I didn't consider that before. I just assumed it was the surface behind showing through the 2x2. Anyway, if it is two dimes glued together, you still got what you paid for ($0.20) and a free copper ring.
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Oh well. I'm popping it in the freezer overnight to see if the dime(s) will pop out like the center from an old toonie.
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Thinking I recall reading somewhere about, back in the day a dime could be placed in the center of a copper spark plug compression ring and gently pressed together to fool cigarette machines into taking them as a quarter.
Sorry can't find the source at this time. Thank, Doug.
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05/13/2016 9:19 pm
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Well, it's two dimes inside a copper ring. The one with the outward-facing reverse is dated 1975. Halo1st, you're exactly right!
Oh, and by the way, that huge gouge in the obverse dime goes all the way through the coin. Could it be a cracked planchet?
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05/13/2016 9:21 pm
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