Crimes Against Numanity: Your Most Odd, Surreal And Comical Of Abused Coins

I propose a new thread dedicated to the most perplexing and unusually damaged coins we own, mostly for fun but also to brew some neat anecdotes and stories of how these were discovered. This is reserved for the coins so strange in appearance that they warrant far more than a details grade, and are kept solely for their novelty factor.

I'll start things off with one that I discovered just last week when coin roll hunting. It's a 1984 Lincoln Cent with a massive hole punched into Abe's temple, all the way through the width of the coin. Now I get that this was once popular to do with things like Morgan dollars (turning them into necklace pieces and what not) but it appears this person went out of their way to make sure the hole drilled through his head, instead of say, the 'We' in 'In God We Trust.' Suddenly it's a chilling allegory for the very same event that brought about his death. I couldn't resist holding on to it.



If you have any of your own uniquely tormented pieces you wish share, feel free to do so right here!