screwed up dime

I'm not a coin collecter. So any help would be great. I found a dime that has no date or words on the face side. In the middle of the head is a round thing with a line threw it. At first glance I thought someone done it. But the circle is raised. Not inset. So it is a misprint. Has anyone seen any of these dimes. I can't figure out how to attach picture. But I can email a pictue to someone that can post it on here for me.

 

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An image would be needed, just click the icon in the reply section that is third from the right to upload image.

 

:hail: PICTURES

 

Could be a die chip, but without pics impossible to say...

 

It says the image is to large

 

Open it up locally on your machine in a photo editor, resize, save, try again.

 

I think I go it

 

This site also works well for uploading photos to forums if you can't get the attach feature to work: http://postimage.org/

 

Any ideas

 

Pic is pretty dark. But, it looks like post mint damage.

 

The circle in the middle is raised. So it hasn't been hit with anything. The back is in mint condition. If it was hit then the circle would be inset. It was done from the mint process. I had a guy look at it today that collects coins. He wanted to buy it. But I told him not till i found was the worth was

 

It's not, in any way shape or form, a mint error , so I'd jump on any offer higher than ten cents.

 

Ok, please educate us as to how it was struck this way. Sounds like you already have your mind made up that it's a mint error and not PMD. I don't think , given your, pic that you will get anybody to agree with you that it's a valuable mint error. Post mint damage in my opinion.

 

Yes, David, you seem to be so sure of yourself, so, please explain how that coin would look like that right out of the coin press.
There are novice and professional numismatists here just dying to learn more.

 

Just because the center is raised doesn't mean it's not PMD. Out of many possibilities, here's one item that could have been pressed against it:

 

I know exactly what this is. this coin has been turned down by using a lathe in the machine shop.It was probably going to be a two tailed coin and the job went bad. this is how the magican trick or novelty coins with heads or tails on each side. one side of the coin is cut out with a lathe and part of another coin is inserted into the hollow opening. the reason the center of this coin is raised is because the lathe removed the other metal from the edge of the coin.

 

Your mind reading skills are amazing! Do you talk to the dead, too?

 

I went to a garage sale, and asked for any old foreign coins. The guy had a small can of coins. Inside were many American coins that were mutilated, so, I am spending them as I can. Not many foreign coins, but they were not messed up.

 

what the heck ? You may have eat too much of that crow you said you was going to eat in another thread. I hope you are ok ....... LOL

 

If that was the case the detail of the top of the head would be missing or show evidence of the metal removal there. I would agree with Lon that it has had something with a central hole pressed against it.