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Valued Member
United States
238 Posts |
Last post before I hit the rack. Not sure if I posted this years ago when I first found this wonderful site. Is this is one nasty looking PMD? How do the letters ONE still show through all this?    |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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i was thinking a grounder at first but looks more like fire damage. The stories this one could probably tell....
-makecents-
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Valued Member
 United States
238 Posts |
Funny I think that all the time especially when thumbing through my IHC, what a story these old coins might tell. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
8743 Posts |
I've messed with Morgans over the years a little and like to think that one I've had, may have been spent or stolen by Billy the Kid.  -makecents-
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Pillar of the Community
United States
676 Posts |
Looks like some sort of lamination error to me?   I have seen lamination errors that show ghost remaining devices, like the reverse on this 3 cent coin:  Edited by Khromtau
02/28/2023 10:54 pm
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Moderator
 United States
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Looks more like a very defective planchet to me. Notice that the 'ONE' deep inside the canyon is still readable. Weakly struck, but there.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2775 Posts |
Hard to tell for sure. May have been used in fuse box at some point in time. Thanks, Doug.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
19144 Posts |
Fun. I'm thinking some planchet issues, perhaps manifested by a delamination. Add to that wear, exposure to a corrosive environment, and perhaps some unwanted duty in a fuse box. I'd keep this as a cool curiosity. I have a dedicated Dansco album for 'Twilight Zone' cents,
If coins could talk...
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Valued Member
United States
238 Posts |
Indeed... what a story this one could tell. Makes me think of that old James Taylor song, "If you could read my mind".
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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To me it looks like a circulated coin that someone added acid on the surface of the coin. Thus the eaten away look on the affected areas. It may have been a lamination error, but someone helped it along with acid to make it look like a mint error. (Note the folding of the lamination of the area of "ENT".)But to me it is now a damaged coin.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'm in the planchet damage camp.
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Valued Member
United States
150 Posts |
I always think of the same thing whenever I come across an old Wheat cent from the early 1900's. They had so much more buying power back then, if they could talk I can imagine the stories they would tell. |
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Valued Member
United States
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Regardless of all the valued inputs on this example I still don't see how the letters ONE could show through with physical or chemical alterations. Fascinating coin that's not going anywhere. It will be just another for family tree to resolve or toss out.
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Posted 02/28/2023 10:08 pm
