Tin snips or the like. The obverse and reverse marks match. A garbage disposal just beats at things, rather than pinching them, I think. For a long time, I had half a silver Roosevelt; the other half was sacrificed to a test tube of nitric acid, because I wanted some silver nitrate.
You're correct, Garbage disposal just chews things up. Anyone with kids and a garbage disposal in their home eventually experiences what a spoon looks like after it's been chewed up a little in a garbage disposal
I love posts like this. Is this just damage or am I a millionaire because fools like you can’t tell this is damage? A ten-year old can tell this is damage. What are we, detectives? Suggestion, pick up a book on mint errors. There aren’t too many types. If the coin you discovered doesn’t reasonably fit one of those types, don’t get your hopes up. Do that small favor for you and big favor for us. First read, then ask. This isn’t complicated. Trust me when I tell you that.
Well, I don't think I posted this with hopes of becoming a millionaire. Just an unusual damaged coin I found many years ago as a kid and put it away because it's a silver dime. I guess I thought it would be interesting to get other's thoughts on how it was damaged.
It doesn't matter how or in what many number of different ways it was damaged. Process of elimination - damage sustained at the mint is absolutely positively ruled out.
I purchased a batch of junk silver from a fellow that buys abandoned storage rooms. I got a good deal but there were three Mercury dime that looked like they were folded up like a piece of tin foil! Who knows why these coins get abused like this.
Whoa there, horsey. Read that post a little more carefully. It clearly asks "which kind of damage", not "is this damage". I share your frustration with those types of posts, but this ain't one of them.
Well, but why keep something if it’s just cut up? Look, I just got up for a minute. I got to get back into the barn. But we got that other guy, and he doesn’t know when to quit, in spite of hint after hint. What is this, an epidemic?
It’s like if we’re collecting autos, here. I got this heap. What caused this? Is it a factory error? You mean you can’t tell?