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Hey I have just found this coin, it isn't sanded, and looks like it is unstruck on the revers, but it has the rim, no sanding lines, just striping radially. Any ideas? Austrian 10 groschen.   |
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I don't see it leaving a legit mint like that,so PMD of some kind. John1  |
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Pillar of the Community
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But what, the rim is intact, like it was struck
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It weighs the same as another coin that is otherwise identical.
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United States
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@tcd, in looking at this coin on numista, I see that the side depicted in your first picture doesn't have the intended rim. Especially considering that this coin is made from a relatively soft metal (aluminum), I am convinced that someone has intentionally damaged it. Perhaps this was the first step toward creating a love token?
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To my eyes it seems obvious that somebody scraped off the reverse of the coin.
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United States
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Wouldn't it weigh less then?
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Well sure if the person removed material. However, if this is just a series of scratches, then they only moved the metal around.
"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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It's not scratched, it is as smooth as ice, it just looks striped.
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The rim should be scalloped on both sides as mentioned by @spence, so the rim isn't right. PMDEdited by tdziemia
01/02/2021 10:35 pm
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Yep, this is a classic "design scraped away" appearance, by a dremel or similar tool.
It is not physically possible for a coin to be "struck only on one side", just like you can't clap with only one hand. You need the pressure from two dies to create a coin. To make a coin with a blank reverse, you would need to deliberately create a blank reverse die and put it in the coin press. That's not a "mint error", that's somebody illegally fooling around in the mint.
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