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New Member
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My wife gave me a bag of change from her purse and this was in the mix. Any ideas or help, I'm new to this.   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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 to the CCF! To me, it looks like someone filed off the obverse of the coin for some reason. If so, there's no value to the coin. Not even the 25 cents unless you turn it in as damaged for replacement, which is more hassle than it's worth. Edited by BadDog
07/09/2018 4:09 pm
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to the Community! Your post was moved to the appropriate forum for the proper attention.  |
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United States
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@ND, first welcome to CCF. Second, I agree that your coin has been damaged--more specifically, one side has been filed. This is definitely a spender unless you want to keep it because of it looks kinda cool.
"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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Valued Member
United States
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Some damage you got there! =)
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New Member
 United States
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Although fileing seems to be an obvious possibility, if you take note of the marks they all originate from center as if it was stuck in a machine and ground off over time. This is where I wonder if possibly it happened in the mint. I just can't place any machine in the real world that could do this to a coin, that's where I'm looking for similarities.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It has been damaged with a spinning wire brush. Absolutely not a mint error.
Crazyb0 has pictures of the process of a coin being damaged like this.
Edited by SilverDollar2017
07/09/2018 6:13 pm
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United States
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to the CCF Quote:
This is where I wonder if possibly it happened in the mint. There is absolutely zero US Mint process which will produce the result seen on your coin - and several post-mint processes which will get the job done. As politely suggested above - your coin is post-mint damaged and worth 25 cents - but albeit a nice curiosity. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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This coin was altered post mint, any rotating file could do this, for example a circular sander. I'm pretty sure you can do this on a lathe too.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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 Oh well. to the CCF! Edited by Coinfrog
07/09/2018 7:04 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Not an error. It's Post Strike Damage (it happened after it left the U.S. Mint). It absolutely impossible for this to happen at the U.S. Mint. It HAS been damaged by a spinning wire brush as stated by SilverDollar2017.
Errers and Varietys.
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