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Valued Member
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http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/17...ke0038bz.jpgNot really sure about this one. The coin is the same size as a quarter but weighs the same as a knickel(5 gram). It seems to have a small clip on top of coin. Jeffersons bust is there and on reverse the monument is also there but faint. I thought maybe a damaged coin, but to be the exact size of a quarter?. I will add another pic for size comp. Thanks and hope all is well with everyone. David
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United States
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Spelled "nickel" just for info sake. Yours was run over by a train - literally. We used to flatten coins out like this when I was a kid. Sit them on the rail, wait for a train to go by, then go back to the track and hunt for the result.
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Originally posted by coppercoins
..... run over by a train - literally. We used to flatten coins out like this when I was a kid. Sit them on the rail, wait for a train to go by, then go back to the track and hunt for the result.
Coppercoins, you must of been a rich kid. I only used pennies for this sport. LOL |
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we werent even that smart, we used nails to make pocket knives on the rail:)
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Sorry but I don't believe that coin has been run over by a train. All coins I have ever seen ended up elongated after a few tons of locomotive ran over them. This coin is still circular so I doubt very much it has ever seen a train track? While I am not real sure what you do have I can say with 99.9% honesty---no train involved in this.
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It could be a hammer and anvil thing...but it isn't from the mint, that's for sure. Once that's out of the question, does its real cause matter all that much?
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I'd say the closeness to a quarter is no accident. My guess as to what happened here: someone took a nickel, beat it nice and flat until it was the size of a quarter, then tried to pass it off as such in change. Nice 20c profit - if you can get away with it (it is, of course, illegal to do this). It would have to have been done back in the days when doing all that work for 20c would have been worth it!  Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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From the first picture I thought I could see a bit of Washington.
Could this be just a beat up old silver quarter?
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Turkey
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In the first pic, it seems like there are slight lines look like chin and neck.
In the next pic. the edge looks odd to me as if there is a chamfer around the coin.
Could it possibly be a very very bad counterfeit attempt?
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United States
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http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/58...er0026jl.jpgI also ran a few of these over when I was young and the result was oblong and very flat. I guess the thing that bothers me most is the fact that jeffersons head measures the same from coin to coin.If it was beat with a hammer it would also oblong wouldnt it? I work with hammers every day and believe it would take a great skill to make coin same size as a quarter, without distorting the size of the head. The indents on this coin would require a tiny hammer and I dont believe would flatten the coin.not sure at all but just makes ya wonder. I will also add a pic of the side of the coin. Thank you for all the input.David
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It seems if a person wanted to make one of those they could place a nickel in the center of a 1" washer and crush it in a vice or hydraulic press.
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Posted 02/04/2006 10:52 am
