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Edited by ZZZeroNight
02/13/2021 11:11 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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I can tell you that it does not look like a wrong planchet coin. Looks squished a bit. What's the weight? I don't know which is the normal coin vs the coin in question that you have held together (it's not good for coins to hold them in your fingers that way, fyi), but both coins have clad layers, and so that eliminates cents or nickels, and it looks too small for a quarter. Weight will tell us more. At this point, I am guessing it's just post mint mashing damage, in addition to environmental tarnishing/toning/damage. Maybe from heat or chemical reaction.  |
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The 1972 dime is a little bit thicker it's darker s around the rim it looks like copper there is no clad anywhere to be found either this is a cladless dime or it's on the wrong planchet almost the diameter of a penny and the queen is obviously a different type of metal because when I dropped the coins they sound differently 1 drops with a Ting Ting and the other one goes with a clud
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What is the weight? As mentioned, it's too small for a quarter, The weight will tell us more. Not sure when you say it looks like copper. It is not on a cent planchet. |
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@zzz, as @merc mentioned, knowing the weight should be definitive as to whether this is environmental toning or an off-metal strike. Please add that info to this thread when you have a chance. Thx.
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Yep, weight please.  to the CCF! |
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to the Forum! The coloring looks just like a typical metal detector find - it's possible the coin was buried in the soil for a long time and maybe all the crud on the surface has added a bit to the diameter and weight. |
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See the coating wear off the coin? That doesn't happen to missing clad coin. They remain red, not brown and gray. The weight will be normal as a dime. A cent planchet would not find into a dime collar.
Edited by coop
02/14/2021 09:53 am
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If it is oversized and has reeding, there are two possibilities. It was been flattened out slightly making it expand, or it is a fake. There is no way the normal minting process will make an oversized dime that still has reeding on it.
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Just looks like it spent a lot of time in an environment that didn't agree with it.
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Just looks like it spent a lot of time in an environment that didn't agree with it. Yeah, and the dime too. |
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Why do we have to keep looking at peoples fingers holding coins
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Posted 02/13/2021 11:36 pm
