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Looks like purposeful flattening to me. Is this cent the correct diameter?
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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Pillar of the Community
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It weighs 2.5 and is the same size
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Bedrock of the Community
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Yes I agree that it could be an early stage Dryer Coin then. "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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I was wondering why the mm is sunken inwards?
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Bedrock of the Community
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It's an early stage Dryer Coin. Not an error coin. PSD. A spender. Errers and Varietys.
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Bedrock of the Community
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I'm thinking this was altered like a Texas Cent, but not squeezed at tightly. Placed between two pieces of leather and squeezed in a vise. Not a mint error. Just an altered coin. PSD. |
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@coop, that was my initial thought too, but the OP said that the diameter is the same.
"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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Bedrock of the Community
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Just not squeezed enough to enlarge the diameter.
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Ok fair push-back. I suppose there isn't a good way to definitively say one method of damage over the other. In the end, this coin is a spender though--on that we all agree.
"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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Bedrock of the Community
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I don't have a vise to create one of these. If I did, then we would know for sure what happened. We see this often on coins. On the plated ones, they stretch and the plating falls off. On the copper coins, they don't peel as they are not plated.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
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