IS THIS EVEN REAL? OR WHAT?

Discussion in 'Error Coins' started by hollie77, Sep 21, 2019.

  1. hollie77

    hollie77 New Member

    OK so i am fairly new to coin collecting as i just started when my aunt gave me my uncles collection after he passed. i was looking thru it a few days ago and found this..... 20190915_033806.jpg 20190915_033833.jpg 20190915_033833.jpg
     
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  3. masterswimmer

    masterswimmer A Caretaker, can't take it with me

    Looks like a whole lot of PMD (post mint damage).
     
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  4. Paddy54

    Paddy54 Well-Known Member

    The effects of HCL on a coin. Acid
     
  5. Michael K

    Michael K Well-Known Member

    Maybe it was in a fire or something.
    Yes it is a real Buffalo nickel, but I would guess the value has been reduced to
    5 cents.
     
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  6. -jeffB

    -jeffB Greshams LEO Supporter

    If that -- since it no longer shows a denomination, human cashiers might not take it, and it might have lost enough weight that machines will reject it.
     
  7. Mountain Man

    Mountain Man Supporter! Supporter

    Lots of environmental damage, like it's been buried for a long time.
     
  8. Paddy54

    Paddy54 Well-Known Member

    That is without a doupt acid damage.....
     
  9. Michael K

    Michael K Well-Known Member

    If that's the case, I turn it in to my credit union as mutilated coin and receive full face value. I do it at the end of the year with my metal detecting scrub coins.
     
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  10. -jeffB

    -jeffB Greshams LEO Supporter

    Yeah, a coin has to be really badly damaged to make it impossible to exchange. But it becomes more trouble, and trouble carries a cost as well. To me, a coin that has to be set aside for special disposition is worth less than one I can just spend.

    ...wait, what did I just say? :eek:
     
  11. LA_Geezer

    LA_Geezer Well-Known Member

    Many of the damaged cents I find in Coin Star rejection bins will get rejected by the self check-out machines at Walmart but I have no trouble at all passing them on to human cashiers in supermarkets. I was unaware that banks would not take damaged coins, though.
     
  12. Michael K

    Michael K Well-Known Member

    That's why I save them up for a year and when I have to go to the bank anyway (credit union) they do it for me. It's been like $1.50 most times. I only have half that this year because not enough silver. Just a couple of mutilated coin star dimes.
    Usually I get a real bent out quarter or chewed up nickel along with the disintegrating zinc cents.
    I did find this bad boy today:
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  13. Conder101

    Conder101 Numismatist

    What does the buffalo weigh? I have my doubts as to it being a real coin. Looks more like a poor quality one sided casting..
     
  14. hollie77

    hollie77 New Member

    It weighs 3gs I thought it looked like a buffalo struck on a foreign split planchet. But as I said I am fairly new to this.
     
  15. Conder101

    Conder101 Numismatist

    Weight is only a little more than half what it should be. I'm really thinking a one sided casting.
     
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