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Totally Damaged 2016 Dime - Yet Very Strange

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 Posted 06/04/2025  3:56 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add lvtwentytwo to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I've never seen something like this before. It almost looks like someone dropped a copper weld on reverse side of the coin and then somehow smashed it in.


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 Posted 06/04/2025  4:06 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ijn1944 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Very interesting. Blunt force damage with a curious twist.
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 Posted 06/04/2025  4:21 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Centinal to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The reverse looks like it's had some heat put to it.
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 Posted 06/04/2025  4:47 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add lvtwentytwo to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I'm thinking about taking a sharp object and see if I can pry off that copper looking thing.
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I'm thinking about taking a sharp object and see if I can pry off that copper looking thing.
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 Posted 06/04/2025  5:07 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add lvtwentytwo to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Here yah go. The entire layer separates.

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 Posted 06/04/2025  5:21 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Errers and Varietys to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
That's some serious PMD. Very interesting case too.
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I could separate the clad entirely if that would help in analyzing it.
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yes, remove the cladding that came loose. See if any copper from the core is on the cladding. Also get an accurate weight of the entire coin, then another measurement with the cladding removed and not on the scale.
May be measure the weight of both pieces separately.

This is a good study coin.
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Will do! More to come!
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 Posted 06/05/2025  11:59 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add lvtwentytwo to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Here yah go!

Total weight: 2.13
Obverse: 1.79
Reverse: .34 -.35

(2nd pic shows Obverse on left, Reverse on right)


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