What happened on this 1998 cent?

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  1. Shrews1994

    Shrews1994 Collecting is my passion.

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  3. paddyman98

    paddyman98 I'm a professional expert in specializing! Supporter

    PMD - Post Mint Damage
    How it was done? Only the person that created it knows.
     
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  4. Clawcoins

    Clawcoins Damaging Coins Daily

    small "cleaning" cup wire metal brush on a drill.

    What?
    You've never fiddled around with your power tools ?

    It's still worth a cent !!
     
  5. Shrews1994

    Shrews1994 Collecting is my passion.

    Lol I know. But in the middle they left Lincoln still sitting. Lol I know it's not an error but just funny.
     
  6. CoinBlazer

    CoinBlazer Numismatic Enthusiast

    This is PMD that I can almost be sure you could sell on ebay as a rare error
     
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  7. Clawcoins

    Clawcoins Damaging Coins Daily

    There's infinite ways to damage coins either on-purpose, incidental or accidental.
     
  8. Randy Abercrombie

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    I would call that one "PMD art". Pretty cool looking.
     
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  9. Badger Mint

    Badger Mint Active Member

    if a wire brush on a drill was used, which I doubt, the center would be untouched because the wires don't go all the way to the middle. it does look like something rotated against it, but no idea what.

    Joe
     
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  10. Clawcoins

    Clawcoins Damaging Coins Daily

    You can find different types; using a variety of different materials; or various shapes, sizes, bunched strands (not individual), etc. And most ppl can't hold one steady; or too much pressure pushing the wires out, or anything inconsistent anyways. One that small probably wouldn't have an opening in the middle. It may even have been a flat one, which once rotating is still rotating; though looking at the outer edges I would think it was a round one.

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  11. coin roll

    coin roll Active Member

    You could use it as a fuse if you have a very old electrical fuse box.
    Only old people would get this joke.
     
  12. Badger Mint

    Badger Mint Active Member

    not to beat a dead horse, but a rotating wire brush would make concentric circles, where to my eye this looks more like lines radiating out from the center in a spiral pattern.
     
  13. Randy Abercrombie

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    At least you didn't say very old people....;)
     
  14. Conder101

    Conder101 Numismatist

    My home still uses fuses. And when one blows they are getting harder to locate.

    As to the cent, its a 1998 hurricane commemorative!
     
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  15. spirityoda

    spirityoda Coin Junky

    looks like it was used as a button and the round part that holds the string material broke off in the middle of it.
     
  16. Randy Abercrombie

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    Going back and looking.... You just may be dead on. That would make perfect sense.
     
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  17. Clawcoins

    Clawcoins Damaging Coins Daily

    I know, assuming you didn't push it down, which if you are using a low power electric screwdriver may not have enough power to keep the RPMs. Or pushed it down and pulled it up while turning it on. Variety of potentials.

    Ppl need to play with their various power tools more often in useless ways.
     
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  18. Robert91791

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  19. richbeat

    richbeat New Member

    It could have gotten stuck in a clothes dryer. I have a cent that came out of a dryer that looks very similar. :)
     
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  20. paddyman98

    paddyman98 I'm a professional expert in specializing! Supporter

    No.. That's no dryer coin.. Both sides would be affected around the rim.
     
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  21. Cheech9712

    Cheech9712 Every thing is a guess

    Very old would be indian head cents silly
     
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