My Father had this dime for a long time, I have no idea were he got it from.The Dime weighs 2.4 grams and is about 17.7mm.:desk: Any help would be Appreciated! Thank you for your time and God Bless!!
i agree. but then again, if they got 75% of it to become distorted and melted, why not go the whole way? ive worked with metal and jewelery, and it shouldnt take very long to melt a dime... maybe they thought it was all silver :rolling:
How could someone melt the back and yet not effect the front of the coin that much.It looks like if the back got that hot it would melt the coating on the front.
I would suggest that the metal on the back is a layer of another metal that was melted, covering that portion of the coin.
1975... hmmmmm doesnt seem that long ago to me. Must be getting old, hurrump... 1975 = a long time? Oh well. I agree post mint damage.
I agree that it doesn't seem that old to me either. I have tennis shoes older than that and I wear them on occasion. LOL Man it's awful always being the oldest guy in the room. But if I were to guess, could that dime have been used in place of a fuse ? Maybe on a piece of equipment ? I am thinking contact melt with electricity ?
I have a new theory on your dime. When I was a kid, my mom had a 'bracelet' that was made by spot welding about 10 cent's and dime's end to end and bending them around into a circle. One of us eventually broke it and as the coins came apart, they each looked like that. One might be missing a chunk that stuck to the one beside it, and another would have a chunk added to it that came from the one adjacent to it. Just a thought....
That sure sounds good. Like I said Fuse melt perhaps. It sure looks like a fused metal by arcing. I have some cents that were put into fuse boxes, and they got burned too.
