Jefferson Nickel Damaged Year

I'm curious about this coin. It looks to me like someone might have taken a drill or punch to the last two digits of the year. Can someone shed some light on the method and reason why a coin would be altered in this way?

 

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You're right. Why it was done can only be speculation.

 

Probably because some fool wanted to pawn it off as a 1900 error coin.

Chris

 

So most likely the initial stages of some ham-fisted attempt at fraud?

 

The same reason a lot of idiots do stuff. Boredom.

 

A flatbed scanner does produce a much better image. I'm guessing based on the way some of the material seems to curl away that it was probably a drill and not a punch.

 

Please don't lose sleep over this trinket

 

Thanks to all for your time and insight!

 

see here for other discussion about silly stuff:

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/nickel-with-two-mintmarks.265055/page-3
seriously, someone with too much time on their hands