What Has Happened To This 10p Coin?

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MachinMachinMan Pillar of the Community Australia 1985 Posts	Posted 10/22/2021 11:16 pm How is it possible for this to happen? Looks like the reverse has been scooped out or something leaving behind an outer shell containing the obverse and rim. All I know is you can't do this to an Australian coin. Report this Post to the Staff

Greasy Fingers Pillar of the Community United States 7034 Posts	Posted 10/23/2021 12:21 am Someone started then stopped on making a Magicians coin. If I had it I would put a photo in it. Report this Post to the Staff
JimmyD Bedrock of the Community Canada 21609 Posts	Posted 10/23/2021 08:31 am The centre has been milled out. Looks like there may have been something in there that has fallen out, possibly another coin. Report this Post to the Staff
Coinfrog Bedrock of the Community United States 94367 Posts	Posted 10/23/2021 09:19 am Just half a magicians's coin, unfortunately. Edited by Coinfrog 10/23/2021 09:20 am Report this Post to the Staff
David Graham Pillar of the Community Australia 1610 Posts	Posted 11/09/2021 4:05 pm Quote: All I know is you can't do this to an Australian coin. Oh yeah! Give me a metal lathe and I'll show it can be done!! Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16829 Posts	Posted 11/10/2021 12:04 am Quote: Oh yeah! Give me a metal lathe and I'll show it can be done!! I think the OP means "It's not legal to do this to an Australian coin." Which would be true. As for British law on the legalities of making magicians coins, I've found it to be surprisingly lax. ("Surprising", given that it was old British laws that our Australian coinage laws were based upon). The 1971 Coinage Act states: "No person shall, except under the authority of a licence granted by the Treasury, melt down or break up any metal coin." So as long as you don't completely destroy the coin, or attempt to alter the coin in such a way that it appears to become a higher denomination (covered under counterfieting laws), it's apparently legal. This would also render other coin alterations, such as elongated pennies, legal in Britain. 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 Report this Post to the Staff
MachinMachinMan Pillar of the Community Australia 1985 Posts	Posted 11/10/2021 11:28 am Quote: you can't do this to an Australian coin Actually in my naivety I thought this was some kind of clad coin which had been pulled apart somehow (the inner core removed leaving behind a copper-nickel shell) which definitely cannot be done to an Australian coin. But of course British 10p coin is made using normal copper-nickel planchet. Quote: Oh yeah! Give me a metal lathe and I'll show it can be done!! David, I hope that's not what you've been doing to those 1966 20 cent coins you've been marking. Report this Post to the Staff
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