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Ralph Pillar of the Community United States 1582 Posts	Posted 10/30/2006 5:58 pm Guy brought this Walker by this afternoon, and asked me what I thought might have happened to it. I have no idea. Scanned it, and decided to post it here - I know somebody here will know. What caused these BIG Pits? Image: 1942 WL with BIG Pits.jpg 48.42 KB Report this Post to the Staff

SsuperDdave Moderator United States 23522 Posts	Posted 10/30/2006 7:24 pm BB's. Report this Post to the Staff
AuldFartte Pillar of the Community United States 830 Posts	Posted 10/31/2006 10:30 am Somebody playing with an old drill, maybe? Report this Post to the Staff
jcook54 Pillar of the Community United States 533 Posts	Posted 10/31/2006 10:59 am I second the BB motion. Some kid's target practice. Report this Post to the Staff
snowman Pillar of the Community United States 1840 Posts	Posted 10/31/2006 1:52 pm Yeah, I'd have to say target practice. Report this Post to the Staff
gncollectibles New Member United States 9 Posts	Posted 10/31/2006 2:40 pm Come on guys! Target practice? You are looking at a half Dollar and not a one dollar round. Besides, BB's will only ding it a bit and not cause a pit like that. It is possible drilling. Use your magnifier and check to see if you can see swirls in those pits. If you can then surely been drilled. Could have been a deffective planchet? But definitely not fired upon with BB's. But then again if you used a pellet gun, now that can cause some serious damage. Report this Post to the Staff
just carl Bedrock of the Community United States 20753 Posts	Posted 10/31/2006 2:56 pm Not sure if anyone out there has tried this beside the people I know but after seeing a few movies where they throw a coin into the air and shoot it in the air, it's just to much of a temptation not to try it. However, not being a super marksman with a handgun we just use .357 shot shells. They also come in .38, .22, 9mm that I not only know of, but use. Some time back we did a lot of that until I got old enough to realize we were damaging a nice coin. They left many round dents in the coins pending on the size of the shot. A .22 jaketed would do a lot more than that. We also tried that. We also put coins on RR tracks, Street car tracks, pitched at cracks in sidewalks, etc. Report this Post to the Staff
Ralph Pillar of the Community United States 1582 Posts	Posted 11/01/2006 09:18 am Not sure why I didn't post this scan with the original message - just forgetfulness I guess. As you can see the eagle's left wing has raised areas indicating force from the obverse side, thus ruling out the possibility of a mint error. No swirls in the pitted areas on the obverse, and, I should think if someone were drilling it for a pendant or some such they would have drilled clean through. I'm more inclined to go with the theory of it being shot because of the roundness of the pits. With what? Probably never know, but I thought it interesting enough to post it, and get some comments from y'all. Ralph Image: Reverse.jpg 55.65 KB Report this Post to the Staff
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