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What Is This Hole Called?

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Is this some kind of bubble or something? How is it caused?

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 Posted 03/22/2011  09:57 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coppercoins to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
A very crudely drilled hole in the coin.
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 Posted 03/22/2011  10:07 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add markj11 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
How would a drilled hole push material through the other side? Looks more like a tiny bullet hole.
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 Posted 03/22/2011  11:17 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add cdn44fan to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Could be punched like these ones

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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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It's called "Damage".
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Thats a migraine :} :}
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Thanks coppercoins. I wasn't meaning to question you, just wondering how it could be done.
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I dunno, I like the "tiny shooter" theory!
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Punched and hammered, from the looks of the PMD on the obverse.
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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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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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Maybe a WW1 vet wore it in remembrance of the armistice with Germany 11/11/1918.
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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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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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