Ugliest coins!

A rather popular thread on another forum, here!

What's the worst coin you can find? This can be Ebay or your own collection. (The most damaged one)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ugly-Coin-C...170212?hash=item35ed5706a4:g:g6EAAOSw9N1VlJPQ
This one isn't even round!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ugly-Coin-C...124097?hash=item35f6195d41:g:MIkAAOSwPcVVqwFN
Attacked by a lawn mower?

 

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If you're going to post eBay links, you should post the images along with them. Images in eBay listings tend to go away after a while.

 

I'm the proud owner

 

I have a feeling some metal detectorist is going to win the "ugliest coin" prize.

 

Original Thread: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/holy-corrosion-batman.276625/

 

I was gonna post the Presidential Dollars from my recent mint sets, but I gotta admit that some of these are a little bit uglier. But just a little bit.

 

Cmon, how ugly can mint set coins get? I'd like to see them.

 

Sorry, that was pure snark. They look exactly how the mint intended them to look. That's the tragedy.

 

What happened to that poor thing? Oh well, still a seated. The '77-CC I have is very, very, worn, but still looks somewhat better.

 

I walked down a sequence of nickels in an earlier thread on this topic. Here's the one I started with:



In the same lot, I got this gem:



Oblique light reveals just enough detail to show the date:



I keep meaning to hit it with Verdi-Care, but it's got a certain perverse charm as-is.

 

I got some real mung. I just got to image it

 

Gratz on the 31S.

 

Thanks. That lot was some of the best fun I've had in the hobby. It looked like any other cull/junk lot, but I bought it on the strength of the holed trade dollar and a few other identifiable blobs -- and it turned up that 31-S (as the last coin at the bottom of the bag), a 12-S nickel (also corroded), a really nice darkly toned 25-S nickel (I typed the date wrong in the original post), and several lesser semi-key Lincolns. I think I quadrupled my money just on the trade dollar, but the best part of the whole experience really was the several hours of "good Lord what next?" as I went through it.

Just goes to show that the ugly ones can be good fun, too.

 

If somebody will post the Eunice Shriver commemorative, they will win this contest hands down.

 

Face is pretty ugly, but not *that* bad compared to some of the corroded horrors in this thread.

 

Did the trade dollar turn out being real?

 

Oh, yeah.

 

This has been in my family since the 60's...


I believe someone painted it pink LONG ago.

Pictures don't do justice to how ugly this is in-hand.