I found a 2001 one sided dime

I would like to know if anyone could help please. We found a 2001 dime with only one side stamped and the other blank. I attached pictures and would love any feedback.

 

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Tooled. PMD

 

There are 2 sides to that dime. One had a head of a person the other looks to be damaged.

 

Im sorry I'm not sure what you mean , do you mean it isn't worth anything?

 

A one sided US coin is like the sound of one hand clapping, nothing.

To strike one side you have an equal and opposite force to achieve the strike. Things like grease filled dies, worn dies, etc can happen, based upon your coin I am afraid it looks like someone smoothed the coin after it left the mint.

Chris

 

It's worth 10 cents.

 

You can tell someone has machined it down because of the marks. It's damaged.

 

Well I appreciate the info

 

False, I can clap with one hand.

 

The flat side looks like it has marks from an industrial grinder. Certainly not a mint error.

 

This was probably going to be a doubled headed coin with heads on both sides and the maker goofed it up and quit judging from the deep mark. The seller on Ebay that makes the two headed and two tailed coins and sells them on Ebay makes a fortune selling them. he gets around 9.00 each for a dime or quarter. That's pretty good money for a minute of work.

 

Nine bucks is actually not an unfair price for someone buying it as a gag or novelty item. If more than one person felt one of them were genuine it would go for a lot more. But, if someone googled "two headed" or "two tailed" coin, it would take about 30 seconds to find out these are all doctored.

 

the kind where he puts a quarter and a susan b anthony dollar together fooled a lot of folks when they first started selling on ebay. there is a real coin like these out there and very valuable. one of the man made ones sold for over 2 or 3 thousand dollars and a lot more brought high prices before folks found out they were man made. there is also a few confirmed mint made two headed and two tailed coins and this confuses us. there should be a law against doing our coins like this but I suppose there is not.

 

There is a law against defacing US mint currency. But is it enforced? Doesn't seem that way.

Don't you think the couple of genuine examples are likely assisted inside jobs? Like the 1966 "small beads" Canadian dollar.

 

US Mint doesn't make currency so there can't be a law against defacing it. There is no law against defacing coins, unless it is done with fraudulent intent. There IS a law against defacing paper currency, no fraudulent intent required. Are these laws enforced? Almost never. There are a LOT of laws on the books that are never enforced, but they are there and can be trotted out anytime you tick off the wrong person and can be used against you.

 

Yes the couple of confirmed as genuine doubled heads and tails coins were definately intentionally made by some mint worker and the US Government should take them and destroy them. look at how they grabbed the 69 s doubled die cents then had to returm them when they were declared real. surely the mint workers can see the difference between a rev. and obv. die.

 

The US mint makes coins, and it's illegal to melt them down. Coins are currency.

 

Yea, and if the mistake was accidental, there would have been a whole bunch of them struck. And once it was noticed and the coins destroyed, the fact that any remain is a sure sing they were smuggled out. In either case an inside job.

 

The article I read said that the obverse and reverse dies aren't even interchangeable, so someone would have had to use some kind of clamps or crude adapter to even make it work. And the 2 known were found in a former mint workers deposit box...

 

Get it weighed. It should be 2.27 grams. Also if the reeding is damaged, flattened or such that's a good indication of Post mint Damage.