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My dad got this coin from a coin dealer who was selling a lot of inventory to close his store. The coin dealer assured my dad that it was a genuine mint error, and seeing as he gave it to him for no cost it seems as though he had no motive to trick him. When the Mercury dime side is facing straight up, with torch pointing up, the "top" of the Wheat Back Cent would be at about 7 or 8 o' clock, rotated I'm assuming as the coin "pieces were pressed together.   |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Errers and Varietys.
Edited by Errers and Varietys
09/29/2023 12:57 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Outside the sort of compression markings, could it be two coins encased together? Would think a (true) Magician could do better. Thanks, Doug.
Edited by Halo1st
09/29/2023 01:18 am
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  This was give to my dad by a man who operated a coin shop for at least 50 years. I know how heated people can get about coins, but I ask plainly, is there a reason to assume that it's fake while I provide proof? |
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Diameter? The compression marks on both sides with the new images showing the dimes reeds pressed into the copper seems like a compression issue thus far. Seemed to be in some sort of holder in the first two images.  Thanks, Doug. Edit: Weight? Might also add some more interest. Edited by Halo1st
09/29/2023 02:26 am
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@501, first welcome to CCF. Second, thank you for posting that picture showing the edge. We occasionally see magicians coins of this type, where two coins are thinned enough that the halves of coins can be attached together (as opposed to the more modern type where one is hollowed out such that a second coin can be fitted into it). While this "eleven cent" coin didn't leave the mint looking like this, it is a really neat piece and I'm glad you are storing it in a 2x2 for safekeeping.
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501CherryPicker,  to CCF. Sorry to say,that coin is not a mint error coin. It is PMD.That coin dealer should be ashamed to say it is a mint error. John1  |
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Forum Dad
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There is no way this is an error, sorry to say that the dealer was clueless. There is no way there was a half-copper, half-silver planchet. 100% a post-mint manufactured coin. |
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Definitely made outside the mint. Logic alone dictates, as @bobby notes, that a planchet could not be made like this from two different metals. to the CCF! |
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to the Community! |
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a) grind off the obverse of the cent
b) grind off the obverse of the dime
c) attach the two flat sides together
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to the CCF and  Not a very good Magicians coin. The diamond indentions are from the vise they had to use to smash them together. Edited by Cujohn
09/29/2023 3:30 pm
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There is no way this is an error, sorry to say that the dealer was clueless Probably why he was closing the store and 'dumping' anything he could. But It looks like a Mercury dime was pressed onto a Lincoln Cent - you can see the vise jaw marks all over it. |
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