Saturday Night Laundry Magic Part 2

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Kawliga Valued Member United States 212 Posts	Posted 10/21/2018 11:28 pm Well I guess I need to expand 'Magic Candy Machine' to 'Magic Laundromat,' because there was a coin on the floor. Just one, a penny of course, probably made enough noise when it hit the floor to alert the dropper, but because it's just a penny, that's where it stayed. With my deteriorating back, I definitely wouldn't have picked it up as recently as a month ago. But now I did, and am I glad. I'm also kind of mad. This wheatie is a year older than the oldest one (1919) in my Daddy's collection, which I finally got around to looking at last month, eight years after he died. He just kept them in a jar, and there are no special years either, though they're all in pretty great shape. It kills me that THIS coin was just given away and dropped repeatedly by countless people for a full one-hundred years, wearing it down so bad I'm afraid to even ask if the kind of error/damage can be determined. But (correct me if I'm wrong), I do think it occurred in minting, not post-, because of the wrinkles/cracks you can see on the reverse. Yall think anybody would be excited to buy it? Maybe if I hype it on ebay by including the Magic Laundromat story, my poor dead Daddy and the wheatie he never rescued, and call it 'Abe Van Gogh'? Report this Post to the Staff

Chase007 Pillar of the Community United States 7514 Posts	Posted 10/22/2018 10:09 am It is a great find and joy to find a 1918 Wheatie in the wild nowadays. As far as the scratches on reverse, that's all they are Scratches, there is a damages on the ITED and AM of U.S.O.A. which if you look on the obverse you'll see the indentation over Abe's shoulder right in front of the Y and that also is a damage. but it sure is a keeper. Report this Post to the Staff
coop Bedrock of the Community United States 62064 Posts	Posted 10/22/2018 1:39 pm It is a cull coin. Someone hammered a punch into it along the way. Report this Post to the Staff
Kawliga Valued Member United States 212 Posts	Posted 10/22/2018 7:41 pm Yes I get how the obverse and reverse are reflections of each other, like the lettering on the reverse is faint from wear, not minting, but the wear in that spot comes from it being a hump that sticks out above the rim, due to the punch from the obverse. What I'm unclear about is how you can be sure the punch is PMD. How can you tell scratches from cracks that occurred while cooling? To me the way the E in CENTS is split away doesn't seem possible from a scratch, nor the wrinkles in the space between CENTS and UNITED (it's a depression, not easy to tell from the photos, though I really tried). And what is a cull coin? Report this Post to the Staff
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