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This afternoon, I received my 21 Maple Leaf silver coins (20 for me and 1 for my nephew  ) I recently ordered. They came along with a TOTALLY CRAZY surprise: THE UGLIEST SILVER COIN I HAVE EVER SEEN  A heavily damaged, totally scrapped American Silver Eagle - FOR FREE I called them and Brian who is responsible for silver coins told me that they regularly give away hardly damaged coins to regular customers like me. Actually it's a real Silver Eagle but weighing only 28.11 grams. I asked him how it came to a condition like that but he has no clue. He told me that they often buy hardly damaged coins but this was their craziest buy so far. He said that they also published the coin on their website and blog as an example of what people can even sell Update: I found my coin on their website Scroll down to the very end here: http://www.redollar.com/answers/sel...r-coins.html to see photos of the silver coin in better resolution. Actually the Eagle coin looks much better there. You can even see the scratches on the silver. Soooo... I received 28.11 grams of pure silver for free, worth $15.54  Instead of melting they give it away as a funny surprise and it's now my first ERROR COIN - HAHAHA First, I thought it's a bullet hole but it's not. I really believe that the Silver Eagle was drilled.  I also believe that it's not possible to shoot trough a Silver Eagle Can you guys proof me wrong? HAHA  See the deep scratches! It's the perfect scrap silver coin!  Edited by DrEagle
01/05/2018 12:15 pm
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It's possible to shoot through them, but yea it does look like drill holes with how smooth it is
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It's possible to shoot through themI would like to see this  You tried it?
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1 offer 1 Maple Leaf silver coin for a video showing you doing that  Seriously! An armor-piercing shell, AP for short, is a type of ammunition designed to penetrate armor. From the 1860s to 1950s, a major application of armor-piercing projectiles was to defeat the thick armor carried on many warships. From the 1920s onwards, armor-piercing weapons were required for anti-tank missions. AP rounds smaller than 20 mm are typically known as "armor-piercing ammunition", and are intended for lightly-armored targets such as body armor, bulletproof glass and light armored vehicles. The classic AP shell is now seldom used in naval warfare, as modern warships have little or no armor protection, and newer technologies have displaced the classic AP design in the anti-tank role.Edited by DrEagle
01/04/2018 9:01 pm
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Well, it depends on what you define as "shoot" and what you define as "utterly obliterate."
I'm sure an rpg rocket could get through obliterate it.
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01/04/2018 9:15 pm
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You wouldn't even need armor pieciring rounds, silver isn't that strong by metal standards and that's basically all an ASE is. You can find Morgan's that were shot through if you look around. I don't know if any handguns could do it at least not standard ones (aka not a double eagle) as I've never tried though a 40 or 45 might, but if you had some rifles you could certainly make a shot through collection of them. Edited by basebal21
01/04/2018 11:02 pm
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Green tip 5.56mm will go through Kevlar, a ASE is paltry resistance. |
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Most likely it's a drill - the little parallel line marks are from pliers holding it in place
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"This is only a drill..."  But yeah, I am sure there are publicly available firearms that could pierce an ASE.
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Wonder if somebody's wife was aggravated that hubby was spending more time with his coins than her... |
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Nice ASE but probably wouldn't submit for grading  Theory: Not drilled...no reason that a drill would distort the rest of the coin this bad. There would be a nice round coin with holes. Shot...yup..I really don't think it was thrown in the air Annie Oakley style and blasted.... thus the vice marks on the coin which held it in place during execution so it would be reasonably in the same area as it was before death. Coin bent from the impact |
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Shot...yup..I really don't think it was thrown in the air Annie Oakley style and blasted.... thus the vice marks on the coin which held it in place during execution so it would be reasonably in the same area as it was before death. Coin bent from the impact
If it was shot most of the weight would be there. The metal would just push out of the way. Not an ASE, but this quarter didn't stand a chance against a 5.56. Silver is pretty soft as far as metals go, I would bet a handgun round will make it through.  Edited by Taphandle
01/05/2018 10:13 am
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Wow, the coin has seen a lot! At least it wasn't a 1996 ASE.  |
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Quote:At least it wasn't a 1996 ASE.  |
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