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Is this an error? Or is it Post mint? It is just a tiny bit smaller than a dime.

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Why are the wheat stalks "boiled?"
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I would have to say post mint damage.
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Trashed outside the Mint.
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That would be major post mint damage. Someone went to town on that one.
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Thanks everybody for the help!
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I'm betting, due to the uneven shape of the rim, that it was roughly ground down to the size of a dime to fool the old ten cent soda machines.

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