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Dime Printed In Reverse

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 Posted 05/31/2008  2:04 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add karenk to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I came across a rather funky dime- it's printed in reverse on the face. It is recessed and on the right side, where you can't read the printing, it has deeply recessed shapes. The face is very dark so I lightened the photo so you can see it better.

The back of the coin is normal except it is off-center in relation to the face.

Has anyone seen anything like it before?

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 Posted 05/31/2008  3:09 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coop to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
What type of planchet is this on? It looks like a Zinc one with the devices on LIBERTY? But with the image reversed and recessed I believe this to be from another coin squeezed in a vise to make an impression the on the second coin. If it were struck from the mint, the die would have struck the image correctly in normal pattern. But this is what you would see from a squeezed coin. A garage job. Not a mint error.
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 Posted 05/31/2008  4:44 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add karenk to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks for your reply coop. It is on a coin or is a coin- I'm not really sure what it is. Looks just like a real dime from the back- I have attached a photo of the back.

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 Posted 05/31/2008  8:37 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add mikediamond to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I strongly suspect that this coin was altered outside the Mint. The dark obverse would indicate a foreign material was placed on top of the normal obverse or over an obverse that had been removed earlier. It could be a thin layer of lead or Wood's Metal. Then a normal dime was pressed into the soft metal, leaving an incuse, mirror-image impression. The lumps that are scattered over the surface are also something you wouldn't expect in a genuine flipover, in-collar, first-strike brockage. That's an error I've never come across, although it's theoretically possible. The absence of finning on the reverse rim is another indicator of fakery. How much does it weigh?
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 Posted 06/01/2008  02:52 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coop to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The reverse rim area appears distorted like it had been tampered with at 3 & 9 o'clock. I wondered what if was on. Now I know. The lumps made me think of a zinc planchet on LIBERTY. Looks like another fake one.
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 Posted 06/02/2008  07:50 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add amac44 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Looks like some one used it as screwdriver?
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 Posted 06/03/2008  08:35 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add madzdad71 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
If it is a vise job, It's well done, Even the wrinkles under his eyes are there, his hair lines and his ears look very sharp.
If anything, it's a good conversation piece.
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