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 It's real, just heavily damaged. The W stands for Weinmen, the last name of the designer for this coin. |
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Canada
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To the Forum. |
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Looks like somebody sanded off the reverse to make a love token, got about halfway there and got dumped.
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Genuine Mercury dime intentionally damaged . As said above the A over W is designers initials Adolf Weinman .  |
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Nice. Post mint damage. The West point mint was established in 1986. W stands for the designer
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Bedrock of the Community
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Deliberately defaced in all likelihood. to the CCF! |
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I could be wrong but looks to me like the reverse has some adhesive residue as if it had been used as a decoration
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 simple damage to a real.dime.
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to the Community! Your post was moved to the appropriate forum for the proper attention.  |
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Welcome! Agree with the above as to a mint mark which for Mercury dimes appears on the reverse. Sadly, we'll never know which of the three. (Philadelphia, Denver and San Francisco) ANA member - PAN Member - BCCS Member There are no problems only solutions - the late, great John Lennon
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I'd be hoping for a D.
Maybe it had one and that's why the reverse was defaced.
Edited by Conder101
09/10/2019 08:41 am
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Possibly someone did that to gather some Silver. |
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to the CCF My guess is that our OP's dime was formerly half of what's commonly called a "magic coin." If so, it was once glued to a Lincoln Cent. These trick coins, concocted outside the mint, were quite popular back in the 1950's and earlier. Here's one for sale on ebay. Despite the seller's optimism, these novelty pieces typically trade for $5 or thereabouts. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Obverse-19...AOSwQjxc~p6d |
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Possibly, a weight might help. Most magicians coins from that era are ground down to half thickness and the cent side has the edge ground down to dime diameter. If it is half a Magicians coin I would expect the weight to be around a gram. Of course if it was just ground down for other reasons it would probably also weigh low but maybe not that low. It does look like there may be traces of adhesive on the rev. |
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Looks genuine but damaged beyond being of any numismatic value.
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