Let's see your trainwrecks!

1791 Washington President Cent, Large Eagle.

 

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Here's a penny???? Well used to be.

 

Here's a quarter that's a little off.

 

1846 Large Cent with damage. I like to think of it as an old train robbery piece. You know when the train robber removes the counter mark to hide his deed.

 

Since I'm seeing all the holes in these coins, thought I'd post this again.... I've posted it on the forum before. It's the one that gives me the most anxiety!

 

Is that part of an S I see under the date? Too bad that hole is there.

 

No, I don't think so. I've had this coin looked at an analyzed in the hopes a die marker could ID it as an S-VDB.........no joy!

 

This came out of a bag of newly minted S ATB quarters. All the other quarters were gem BU.

 

Going thru a friends collection.

 

Holy...

 

This is still my favorite mauled cent - it came from a collection whose previous owners had access to machinery.

 

That's not a wreck..... that's a catastrophe. Lol

 

These two Irish coins have been damaged but with a purpose. During periods of the Irish Troubles, mostly during the 1960s and 1970s, coins from the Irish Republic circulated in Northern Ireland though the official legal tender in the north was British. Northern Ireland was, and still is, a member of the UK. The republic has been an independent country since 1922.

The bitter warfare between the two Irelands led to years of violence and bloodshed fueled by political loyalty, territorial claims and religion.Though Irish coinage commonly circulated in Northern Ireland, many staunch Loyalists refused to accept it. It was quite common for them to deface the republic's coinage by counterstamping political slogans on it or physically damaging their currency. The aim was to force the government to collect, destroy, and reissue new coins. It was economic warfare of sorts.

In any case, I've posted an example of a drilled Irish Penny and an altered Irish Halfpenny. Many of these damaged coins were done in East Belfast machine shops.

Bruce

 

How about a whole pile?

 

She has seen better days...

 

Glad it wasn't silver!

 

Posted this on the under $50 thread a while back...unfortunate considering the details on it:

 

Posted this a while ago, different thread, but it has a home here. Pics not good but it's a quarter ana, 183, east india company. Or, it used be one.

 

Here's a train wreck but a really nice one. There was a definite purpose for the "modifications"...just not sure what they were.

Bruce