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Valued Member
United States
134 Posts |
Is this some kind of bubble or something? How is it caused? [URL="http://img34.imageshack.us/i/imag0037s.jpg/]  [/URL] [URL="http://img824.imageshack.us/i/imag0040dd.jpg/]  [/URL]
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7629 Posts |
A very crudely drilled hole in the coin.
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Valued Member
 United States
134 Posts |
How would a drilled hole push material through the other side? Looks more like a tiny bullet hole.
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Valued Member
Canada
221 Posts |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7629 Posts |
Probably because the hole was crudely done...with an awl or something like that. It's not a machine drilled hole.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Valued Member
United States
499 Posts |
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Valued Member
 United States
134 Posts |
Thanks coppercoins. I wasn't meaning to question you, just wondering how it could be done.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
601 Posts |
I dunno, I like the "tiny shooter" theory!
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Rest in Peace
United States
1729 Posts |
Punched and hammered, from the looks of the PMD on the obverse.
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Valued Member
United States
302 Posts |
Whats neat about these type of coins with holes on them. I'm not saying yours is or not but a person would wear a coin as a necklace as a resemblance like birthdate, Anniversay, etc.... Usually them types of holes are done by jewelers. Every once in a while someone does it themselves and they look like that. The real reason the holes is in the coin I guess well never know.
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Rest in Peace
United States
9104 Posts |
Note on the 51 cent that the holes at 3+6 were punched from the reverse, 9+12 from the obverse.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1256 Posts |
Maybe a WW1 vet wore it in remembrance of the armistice with Germany 11/11/1918.
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Valued Member
United States
313 Posts |
Phillips Head Screwdriver?
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Valued Member
 United States
134 Posts |
I like these guesses. I'll take some better pictures tonight. The hole is so tiny I'm not sure if it could've been used for a necklace, Maybe it started out as a necklace then the person needed money so they spent it.
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Valued Member
 United States
134 Posts |
  I guess maybe someone placed a small pointed object on it and hit it with a hammer since the rim also looks damaged.
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