2016 oddities PMDS

Found this one in the last roll of a box.

 

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Another interesting one.

 

Here's a South Korean 500 Won coin drilled to lighten it so that it approximates the weight of a Japanese 500 Yen coin. The 500 Yen coin is worth $4.85. The 500 Won coin is worth .44 cents. So the deal is this: Drop this Yakuza slug into a Japanese vending machine and hit the "Coin Return" button. Japanese vending machines do not return the coin you put into the machine, but will drop a coin from the change hopper -a REAL 500 Yen coin!


The Japan Mint changed the design and metal composition of the 500 Yen coin in 2001 in order to counteract this activity. These slugs were made in the late 1990s to around 2001.

 

They say this fountain in Pennsylvania pulls in over $3 million in change in a year. Over the years I have had the opportunity to demo a lot of fountains like this. Here are the few of the fines. Most the time we generally find enough change to buy a sixpack or two after work.

 

I love these pics of strange damaged coins. I picked up a few rolls of cents from the bank this week and one roll had 38 out of 50 that looked just like these.

 

When it comes to the cent that's a whole different story. It seems the good old mint figure it's easier if the cent disintegrates they do not have to deal with it.

 

One of the coins was a 1917 that looked like someome ran over it with a grinder. I kept it juat because it was odd

 

Post a pic if you would,

 

The first is the 1917 followed by two of my favorites

 

Not a recent find but one of my best corroded coins.

 

Found this no date in an old junk car. Still a nice find I think.

 

This one has got me. I have the coin and I still don't know what to think. To me it looks like someone stuck this in hot water and it blistered.

 

Who says even die chips have a bad day.

 

Here are a couple that are just starting to get patina. These two showing early signs. These next two or get a little worse.

 

Interesting find at the Amtrak station. I can only assume by the size it's possibly a nickel.?

 

These two I found at the end of the year. Over 2016 I have found a few more. Why is it people seem to like drilling holes in quarters.

 

I don't know would you consider a cent, that was purposely designed to self-destruct. A PMD.? Make a coin with zinc, give it to a human being that is constantly full of static electricity. I know what the mint did, they designed the cent to help reduce the static electricity in humans. So I guess we'd have to call them A PDPMD. USMC60