???Kid with a marker??

I went to three banks today in search of half dollars. I only managed to pick up 120$ in halves and of course was skunked.:rollling: however i came across this one coin that appears to be marked with a sharpie or dry erase marker???? Cant find anything interesting about it but thought id post a pic just to make sure im not passing anything up. Could of just been a kid with a marker.

 

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Or an adult with a marker.

 

or a rogue robotic marker.

 

You could do us Americans a favor, and wash that symbol that appears to be a swastika off of it.:smile

 

Hey Zach, so you know. The swastika was used way before Hitler. It was used plenty in the U.S. as a sign of good luck.

And for the OP:

????Just someone who wrote on it????

 

Hey Zach, so you know. The swastika was used way before Hitler. It was used plenty in the U.S. as a sign of good luck.

Yes and it is still used in a lot of places with absolutly nothing to do with what Hitler used it for. Just go to South korea, it is everywhere.

 

Well that may be, but the symbolism has changed throughout the times. That symbol is mostly know to represent the Nazism and the Third Reich. It's like the word "gay", it used to be used as a synonym for happy or merry, but in modern times has come to mean homesexuality and an individuals sexual orientation.

I dont know how many people here will be open to the idea of using a swastika. I personally find it offensive.

 

Fair enough.

 

Just to clarify, I respect that time and the history of it. I have a small collection of 1 and 5 Reichspfennig with swatikas on them. I guess I dont like it being on American currency, especially since my grandfather was shot in WWII.

It's hard to explain really...

 

No worries, symbols mean many different things to many different people and generations. I didn't want to make anyone ungay with my comments.

 

And I took it that the swastika you are seeing was simply the letters (initials) S L upside down and written so close together that they looked linked. I saw no swastika until the thread kept up. P.S. don't keep these they are devalued by the markings (defacing them) and happen a bit, I've seen several in my looking. People with nothing better to do, and no interest in Coins/Numismatics, have done these.

 

Looks like the El Marko Bandito found my 2 boxes of Half Dollars

 

What I think you are all missing it that these are markings put on the coins by a roll searcher to let him knmow when he is getting his own rejects back. Thats right, someone else is on your turf!

 

=OOO makes sense.... gotta beat him to the punch then.

 

Ziggy may have final answer...

 

Yeah these are the work of a sharpie bandit, just like ziggy said. Around here, somebody is putting a black dot at 12 o'clock, over the E in Liberty. I've seen a few other marks too. And presumably it's done by a roll-searcher that only cares about silver content. I hate finding these, as they mark 'em all. BUs, whatever. Anything not silver. And the sad thing is these guys are likely thinking "If only everybody marked their coins like me, this roll searching sure would go a lot faster..."

 

you may try removing it with acetone if you like the coin. Acetone will not damage the coin and will remove most types of markers. just be sure to use pure acetone and not nail polish remover.

 

The 45th Infantry Division of the US Army used the swastika as it's emblem as late as WWI fighting against....... the Germans.

http://www.ioffer.com/i/swastika-patch-us-45th-infantry-division-not-nazi-141205239

 

I thought it was a palm tree or a lazy X.




Having confronted symbols "in the wild," that ain't one of them.
There are many that are used. Not just one. Read up. Get smart.

 

It was the start of a Tic-Tac-Toe game that went horribly errant.