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Was metal detecting and found this Mercury dime. All of the text is stamped backwards. I've searched and can't find any other examples of these dimes with the text stamped in reverse. What have I found? And what may it be worth? *** Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum. ***Edited by Fivelitrecobra
07/23/2017 3:16 pm
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 To CCF ,  |
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to CCF. Need pics please. Also, please do not post pics sideways. John1  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Please post pictures of the coin. We are not going to be able to help you if you don't post pictures. Until you post pictures, we will not be able to help you.
Errers and Varietys.
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Valued Member
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Pictures are necessary to determine value and authenticity. I have never heard of this on any coin, so please post some pics!
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My guess is a piece of tin that had the reverse of a real Mercury dime compressed into it. |
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Bedrock of the Community
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That's a good theory, but talk about a longshot digging it up!
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Can we see the other side?
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@5lc, first welcome to CCF. Second, I agree with @moxking that a disc of zinc (or aluminum?) was squished between two real coins, perhaps in a vice. Probably not worth anything, but still a really neat find!
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
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I bet this was stamped on an outlet box slug. The deteriorated portion being where the punchout leg would be.  |
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Brokage.
Coin struck by a coin that has been jammed in the minting press.
I don't think it is a shed job. Hard to get that much pressure with simple shed job techniques; a vise won't do it.
However, I am a bit 'iffy' about some of the coin, and a lot of the detail, missing in a nearly concentric impression.
Test to see if the planchet is genuine.
If planchet not silver (perhaps Zn or Al), then it MUST be a shed job. Is there any milling on the edge? (a brokage would have milling).
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What's the metal detector reading for this? Need to see the other side.  |
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@sel, just so that I can learn, would a brockage typically have a sharp incuse rim impression like the OP's piece does from eight to two o'clock? It isn't my area of expertise, but I was thinking that brockages tend to have a domed edge.
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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I'd guess you have it right Crazy. Silver, no matter how long in the ground, doesn't corrode like that.
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Exactly Correct .  |
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