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New Member
United States
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My wife was running some pennies through the coinstar locally and was a couple of pennies short to finish the roll. Well, there were some pennies lying on top of the machine so she grabbed them and dropped them in, and they were repeatedly rejected. She put them in her pocket to examine later, and when she got home she took a look at both of them. One penny was extremely thing and rang like silver to her. This was the other one:   This coin was struck on a dime planchet, or dime size planchet. It also (according to my employer who is a coin dealer) may have a double date stamp as my wife insists it does. She says the "7" in 1979 is over a 6, and there appears to be a double impression of the first "9" in 1979. Any opinions? Is my wife seeing things? Is the condition so bad that the coin would just be worthless anyhow? Thanks for looking. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
12437 Posts |
I would like to help but your pics are nothing but red Xs  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4846 Posts |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2602 Posts |
Agree, nothing here but a badly mutilated coin.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2661 Posts |
 I ain't never seen a copper dime planchet before. That one has seen some street time too in my opinion. Yep, had a few run ins with a Michelin or two I would say. |
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Valued Member
United States
225 Posts |
The term for a coin like that is spooned. That is post mint damage.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4000 Posts |
I can see why the coinstar rejected it!   to CCF, by the way! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1213 Posts |
I think this cent would get a rejection most anywhere it went.
If it survives much longer, it will probably develop a complex and require psychiatric help!
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Valued Member
United States
188 Posts |
You should put it in a nice retirement 2x2 and stash it away somewhere dark. LOL
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
12437 Posts |
Your coin was stuck in the fin of a commercial clothes dryer for an extended period of time. The repeated tumbling action against the steel drum rolled the rim inward and both sides of the coin sustained extensive damage. You can see that the rim is rolled over the peripheral lettering and this reduces the diameter of the coin.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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not allot to add but I do agree with the stuck in a dryer scenario, the more it rolled around the smaller the diameter of the coin got and rolled up like your coin shows. There have been a few of them posted on this site in the past few years of just about every denomination
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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I have a few off metal strike errors. I think the more valuable ones are those where the lower value type is struck in a higher value metal.
Most of mine are types for copper nickel planchets, but struck on bronze or copper planchets. Mine, I think would range in value at auction from perhaps $50 to a few hundred dollars. Occasionally, mints do trial strikes of gold coins on base metal planchets
I have a gold forgery of a Sammy Marks gold Tickey. The genuine coin is a South African Threepenny piece, of 1898 normally silver, but deliberately struck in gold for a few privileged officials by the Mint. Mine is 20% overweight, and is probably pressure cast.
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Moderator
 United States
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I agree with it being a Dryer Coin, not a spooned coin though.
John1 
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Don't listen to them. That is an article made by some famous artist to be hung up in a frame in an art gallery.  You must know that is the only explanation since no coin could look that bad by accident.  |
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Valued Member
United States
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Is that what does it? I have a dime a friend gave me because he didn't want it. The only way we know it was made after 1964 is that the copper was melted up and over the edges of coin.
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Posted 11/08/2010 5:25 pm
