France 10 Centimes - Brockage Or Odd Human Flattening?

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will-walking New Member United Kingdom 3 Posts	Posted 07/20/2022 12:10 pm Dear coin experts, I recently found this among my mother's hat box of old coins, and it intrigued me. Is this a coin that shows 'brockage', or has someone had a go with a hammer for some reason? Advice and info very welcome! The best yours, Will Parsons. Report this Post to the Staff

erafjel Pillar of the Community Sweden 2124 Posts	Posted 07/20/2022 12:37 pm Ouch! No, whatever happened to that poor 10 centimes happened after it had left the mint. But to CCF! Report this Post to the Staff
jbuck Moderator United States 187862 Posts	Posted 07/20/2022 12:41 pm to the Community! Coin Collector Since 1978 Avatar Old Avatar 7070 Eisenhower Australia Canada World CCF Members on eBay CCF eBay Search Engine Report this Post to the Staff
will-walking New Member United Kingdom 3 Posts	Posted 07/20/2022 12:55 pm Thank you for the info and the kind welcome! Report this Post to the Staff
NumisRob Bedrock of the Community United Kingdom 17905 Posts	Posted 07/20/2022 2:43 pm from another UK-based collector! with the above - it's just post-mint damage. Rather like the pre-decimal British bronze penny, the French 10-centimes coins issued from 1852 to 1917 were sometimes horribly mistreated by schoolkids and others with too much time on their hands - the coins had nice big surfaces to mutilate and had a low face value! My Trade List: https://goccf.com/t/194596 My Wants List: https://goccf.com/t/191710 Edited by NumisRob 07/20/2022 2:43 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16810 Posts	Posted 07/20/2022 7:10 pm Yes, sorry, there's nothing in the coin minting process, either 1700s or more modern, that can make a coin look like this. This be just a mangled coin. Brockages are never ambiguous or half-done; it's impossible* to have a coin that's only a "partial brockage". On a brockage, the entire design of one side of the coin is mirror-incuse-reversed on the other side, with no trace whatsoever of the "proper" design for the other side showing underneath. Something that "looks like a partial brockage" is almost always a "shed job", made by squeezing two coins together. This, on the other hand, looks like someone simply attacked it with a knife, or a screwdriver. * - OK, it's conceivable that there might be some extraordinary sequence of events that causes a piece of the brockaging coin to break off, creating a "partial brockage" on resultant coins. But I've never heard of that happening, and if it happened, it wouldn't look like this. 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
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