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I didn't know where else to post these few oddballs as some coins are Canadian, some American, some not sure, some not sure what they are or someone probably altered a coin. Hope you enjoy. One is a brown Canadian 1990 nickel. Possiblly someone tried enamelling it? Whole surface and collar/rim red/brown coloured too but bits of silvery shine through at edges of rims and some raised devices spots. I don't know what happened to it. I'm thinking human altered for some reason ;) One is a darker gray/brown 1967 US Dime, whole surface colored like that but its flatter color, though lustery silver color comes through from underneath. Gray-Brown more like some kind of tarnish or color, rather than enamelled I think. It also looks like there are designs behind and extending past the dime designs, both sides, but especially the reverse ... but it is strangely darkly coloured and rough looking so may be some corrosion but? Hmmmm ... its weird. Struck over another design maybe? Lots odd about this one. A planchet looking thing. Has a collar so coin. I think I spot odd remnants of denticles and reeding, and may be surface design. May have had a loop attached or soldered. A medallion perhaps? I dunno. It fell out of a quarter roll, is magnetic. Oddballs is right          |
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I'm wondering if thats oil, like motor oil or something, under the 1967 on the dime and at the bottom of the torch on reverse. Ick.
That 1972 D cent ... is it enamelled or just some weird surface tarnish? Odd reddish colour to it
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United States
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I bet I know what the blank planchet is! It is a blank punched out of a electrical box, made of galvanized steel. You can tell due to the flat spot on edge. when I was a kid we would collect these "slugs" for the coke machine down the street! worked every time.
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Australia
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the Canadian five-cent: I found a CuNi coin at the bottom of a chlorinated swimming pool, and it had a very similar discolouration to your 5-cent.
So my guess is that your coin might have been exposed to something similar.
Peter in Oz
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Looks like a slug to me, too.
It looks to me like the Lincoln is just damaged and the dime is just environmental damage, like a dig find.
Not sure what we're looking at on the nickel, unless you're referring to the tarnished look.
Edited by Scooby Due
10/24/2010 5:12 pm
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Canada
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Slug then I'll bet for the planchet looking thing! Definately has to look and tones of galvanized steel. I do really think it used to have design/images on it though so will hang onto it as a curiosity or mystery slug/planchet/whatever  The nickel, it doesn't look like environmental color change to me but I don't know enough to say for sure. Just really looks like someone tried to plate or coat it with copper or something because it sure has the look of copper. Has some luster so its not a flat matte unplated thing at all. Someone tried to manufacture their own error nickel or tried practicing plating techniques maybe? At any rate, the colouring looks human altered rather than environmental damage to me. Its normal nickel size and metal otherwise and non magnetic. This normal nickel metal shows through in spots. The dime. I agree when I look closely it sure looks like environmental damage to me. I can still see the edge shows signs of it being a clad/sandwich with the bit of copper showing on its edge like US dimes and quarters normally do. So doesn't look tampered with. Just damaged. (I just learned recently that the copper showing on the edges of US coins was normal LOL) I wonder if I can clean up the dime a bit to remove some of the gunk for a better look? Pity its damaged as a 1967 US dime is cool to find here! I'll keep it anyways, along with my other oddballs. The 1972 D cent ... so its likely just age and tarnishing changes to get the unique color then I guess. Thanks for your input and help here folks |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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I wouldn't be surprised at all if someone told me that all of these, even the slug, came out of the ground, especially the dime and cent.
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Canada
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Question: If that disk is a slug, then it should not have a collar
like a coin planchet, should it? Thats whats throwing me off thinking
its a planchet and NOT just a blank disk. Mind you, I don't know about
blanks, but aren't they whole and one piece, no collar? Just a cutout
circle?
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Canada
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I think I got all these particular oddballs out of the neighbors old jar of pennies he had. He just tossed them in as he got them, and who knows where and how he got them. About $20 of pennies he sold me at face to seach through and these were in them. He got most of them from when living in Toronto apparently. There was even some old FROMM FUNNY MONEY game tokens and a CYBER CENTER one from the 1980's for a place in Toronto. (more of my oddballs conversation pieces keepers ) |
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United States
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Metal electrical boxes have pre-cut "holes" in them to allow the electrician to pull wires through. They are completely cut out with the exception of one area (the one circled in your pic) This is to allow the electrcian to choose which hole he wants to use, leaving the others in place. The use of galvinized steel is for cost measures (it is extremly cheap to use). Of course I could be wrong but I am 99% sure.  |
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Canada
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Troy1025 ... sounds about right on about what I'm seeing then. I had thought maybe someone had soldered a loop to a coin (like to wear as a pendant) and someone then clipped off the loop and maybe filed it (to use as a slug in vending machines? ) Though it has some remnant details that make me think it had some coin details. You all have me believing its a slug now too. A curiosity keeper I'll hang onto. Thanks to all of you for your comments and help here. By the way, the 1967 dime, I think I found that one in a penny roll from my bank, but I think the rest of the oddballs came from the neighbor mostly. |
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By the way, that doesn't explain the "collar" on the edge though? Would an electrical
box slug have a collar like a coin?
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