Can Anyone Explain?

Looking at it I still thinks it's a penny over a dime. Nickle and copper both become work hardened and when I look over the sample pics the only place I see good flow is in the center where the majority of the nickel remains after deing struck as a dime. It's pretty thin, it wouldn't react very orderly to being hit with the penny dies.

The vast area of the bluenose detail remains intact on the side of the dime that also has no rim. Drop a dime planchet onto a penny sized die, it's going to be off center and become forcibly extruded into that area when the dies hit. This is in keeping with that photo.

I further think the doubling of the rim indicates truly that it was pinched in there at an angle and only lightly struck on the one side with only the major details showing as some extrusion/flow took place.

I think it's legit, it looks and represents itself as a piece of work hardened, thin nickel that was hit again at an angle.

I'm saying it's a complete dime that was normally produced and then hit as a penny while pinched on one side. That's what I said the first time too. I'm just explaining how I see the metal moving in the circumstances that we know occurs during minting.

If this were silver or copper I'd be... less inclined to think that it couldn't be easily done at home. But because it's nickel and the nickel is behaving correctly for what would be those circumstances, I think it's OK.

Edit for spelling of nickel, "Typos are Us"

Coinsrfun,
I am fairly new here, just check in sometimes and follow interesting posts.
Noticed that you are obviously very experienced with error coins. Do you collect them also?
If so, do you examine each one of them and scrutinize their history, AND how they became errors? WHAT in fact are coin errors, and what are not? And what are the coins that are NOT errors but are as you call them: home made, or in other posts "basement jobs"? Are they then forgeries and of interest to the RCMP?
I have examined the pictures posted and I disagree in a few important points with your evaluations.
I am not going into the ifs and the buts and why and why not. However, I have some error coins, some 5 cent and 10 cent, some dollars etc. And, sometimes I just give in and say: nice coin, I have it, and after examining it I say to myself: I think I know how it happened.
I, and probably about 99.9% of the readers here, believe that NOBODY within their right and sound mind will make any type of die to make a few 10 cent pieces, unless it is for substantial financial gain. If this would be the case, then I am sure, OTHER coins would be known and in the possession of collectors, and NOT in circulation. However, you seem to always come up with this "home made " thing when others do not agree with you. Previous posts strongly suggest that.
I would like to ask you to explain and proof your claim that this coin is a home made item and not what it should be IF things were other than what they are!
I would like to know HOW it was made and what kind of tooling would be needed to achieve such a home made result. Knowing this would most likely rule out the so far unsupported "home made " claim.
In your last post you are saying that error coins are made all the time.
If so, whay do we not find more?

This coin has been struck more than once on each side, 2 times for sure. And it is rotated before the second strike. Has anyone considered a 3rd strike? Maybe, but unlikely.
If I would have to agree with someone who chimed in here, it would be UGLY. His theory and how it occurred makes a lot more sense than it being a basement job.
Coinsrfun, you make strong comments and you most often disallow the valued opinions of others without being able to conclusively explain your claims beyond ANY doubt.
Lets hear from you
C

UGLY, well said and explained. makes sense even for a Coin chick like me with no technical degree, but a very active mind and understanding.
C

For Coingirl. Yes, I am an error collector. I check each coin with its own merits or lack there of. I have discussed this coin with HHB via the telephone before I posted my thoughts. For the record..........I own a Very extensive collection of 5 cent error coins. I own other denominations as well but centre on my 5 cents. I look at the coin at face value (pun intended) and attempt to attribute the "issue" to the mint. That is the key to error confirmation. If I can justify that ...yes, it could have been made this way......Cool!! If not.......Then I research why not....as to this coin....please look at the 10 rev. The schooner. Full detail but only on top of the bust(the high point)of the underlying strike. Notice the hair detail involved with boat...between the details? But now out in front of the boat (which would be the flat or fields of the rev die) it is flat like the fields of a 10 cent coin. This teaches me the 10 cent coin was struck second. Do the same logic on the other side, and the Rev 1 cent is the second strike. Mint, not with the rim damage. It is a squeeze job. If I have offended you or anyone......Sorry, HHB new my thoughts on this coin before I typed it. For the record, I have asked 2 other error dudes from CCRS and they both agree....home made.

I've seen one like this before!