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Does anyone know what happened to this coin   |
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Pillar of the Community
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First photo is a nickel reverse.
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Pillar of the Community
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It belonged to the wicked witch of the west, and now it's melting. Looks like orange peel to me, common on nickels, from a very worn die. I've never seen it that extreme on a half, which makes me wonder. Maybe others will chime in.
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Pillar of the Community
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I don't know what happened to this coin. Some type of environmental damage? Die Deterioration? Struck thru? Edited by USSID18
07/24/2020 6:05 pm
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I think it's been gone over with a wire brush chucked up in drill. That will sometimes look like heat or acid damage. Anyone else?  ANA ID: 3203813 - CONECA ID: N-5637 Clean a coin that may be worth collecting? Please DON'T! When in doubt, leave it dirty!! 
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PMD for sure. Acid or wirewheel brush. John1 
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I don't believe its acid. Its too drippy looking for that . Acid eats the metal uniformly. I did many when teaching chemistry classes to make a good object lesson showing nitric acid dissolves metal vs sulfuric. I am not sure what happened - but think the wire brush could be likely. I have seen where hard pressure with a wire brush can make some funky looking PMD. Or it could be both! How much squash could a Sasquatch squash if a Sasquatch would squash squash? Download and read: Grading the graders Costly TPG ineptitude and No FG Kennedy halveshttps://ln5.sync.com/dl/7ca91bdd0/w...i3b-rbj9fir2Edited by Earle42
07/24/2020 6:57 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Could a welding torch followed by polishing give it that drippy look? I want to make one.
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Hm doesn't have the normal effect of acid.
Normally I would say heat...but for it to get this hot to have that effect...hm. A blowtorch would not be enough at all to do this. Perhaps left in a smelter? Unsure.
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If it was heat (which would be extreme), would not the high temperature affect the obverse?  |
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Very true Merclover. When I first read your comment, I thought, "Oh perhaps someone used a military grade welder (massive blowtorch), to heat up one side so only one side was exposed to the extreme heat." But then, if that did happen, the obverse would at least show some sign of being heated, such as blackening.
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Next step is weight? John1 |
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