Is this worth anything

Found this and wondering if this is an error worth anything

 

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Oh my.... I am afraid that FDR found his way under a lawn mower deck. I am afraid this one didn't leave the US mint in this state. Value would be a dime I am afraid.

 

10 cents. Sorry, just PMD.

 

I was so close to being the first poster for once haha.

 

Welcome to the forum ...

It looks like post mint damage and not an error coin to me

 

The BAD news ... that dime had been badly damaged. lawn mower? maybe .. could be a BILLION other things.

The GOOD News .. even badly damaged coins are still worth face value .. 10 cents.

 

Those are hard to spend though. A machine won't accept it, and I hate giving them to people when they are in that condition. It goes in my mutilated change jar which gets redeemed at the end of the year. They had stopped that program, and then started it up again. "In 2015, the Mint suspended the program to assess the security of the program and develop additional safeguards to enhance the integrity of the acceptance and processing of mutilated coinage."

The United States Mint (Mint) is resuming its Mutilated Coin Redemption Program.
Established under the authority of 31 U.S.C. § 5120, the program provides an avenue through which individuals and businesses can exchange bent and partial coins (commonly referred to as “mutilated coins”) for reimbursement.

 

Can you post a picture of the Reverse side also.. I want to see how damaged that side is also

Gracias

 

What about this penny

 

Reverse of dime

 

that penny got whacked for sure.
Can't you see the damage afflicted to it rather than a "mint error" ?

where did you "find these" coins ?

 

Thanks for the informative post Michael K.

 

yup now 9 1/2 cents lol jk 10 cents.

 

Same thing, worth face value, but harder to spend now because it's underweight. Something poked through the copper coating, and the zinc core started to dissolve away.

Boat makers learned long ago that a steel hull lasts longer if you attach zinc bars to the the outside of the hull. Sheet-metal manufacturers learned that coating steel with zinc protected it from corrosion. It's called "galvanic protection".

The zinc lobby learned more recently that you can convince legislators to put copper on the outside and zinc on the inside of a cent. The first hint of damage causes the cent to start dissolving, meaning it will need to be replaced with a new one. It's called "zinc industry protection".

 

So many of these threads.

 

That coin has been repaired.

You don't see a lot of these in circulation but if they are done well they'll work in a vending machine.

They are done with a ball peen hammer and a file. You just hammer them back into a disc and file off anything sticking out over the edge.

 

It could have been hit with a lawn mower or something but I suspect a lot of these come from car shredders and reprocessers.

It's hard to redeem them especially in tiny quantities so they get repaired so they'll pass through coin counters. I've seen several of them over the years.

 

Please try to use some common sense.
It's just a severely damaged coin.

Even someone that knows nothing about coins could tell you that.

 

Is either of these the small date 1982

 

nothing bro its damaged