Identify that damage!

Discussion in 'Coin Chat' started by hotwheelsearl, Aug 24, 2015.

  1. hotwheelsearl

    hotwheelsearl Well-Known Member

    Here's a new game. Identify what in the heck caused this kind of damage.

    It's weird because the top portion turned silver...
     

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  3. Amos 811

    Amos 811 DisMember

    looks like it spent a hour or so in a small (not so hot) camp fire.
     
    Amos 811, Aug 24, 2015
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  4. hotwheelsearl

    hotwheelsearl Well-Known Member

    Well that's fun :)
     
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  5. Treashunt

    Treashunt The Other Frank

    someone hated it.
     
    Treashunt, Aug 24, 2015
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  6. Amos 811

    Amos 811 DisMember

    found it in your yard as well? i bet at 1 point someone had a fire on it.
     
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  7. hotwheelsearl

    hotwheelsearl Well-Known Member

    I got this in a lot of busted large cents. At 2 dollars a piece, it was an "alright" deal.
     
    hotwheelsearl, Aug 24, 2015
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  8. Evan8

    Evan8 A Little Off Center

    This game is depressing
     
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  9. hotwheelsearl

    hotwheelsearl Well-Known Member

    Not as depressing as the realization that I just wasted 50 dollars on ruined coins...
     
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  10. Amos 811

    Amos 811 DisMember

    wait for others to chime in, but its damaged post mint..
     
    Amos 811, Aug 24, 2015
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  11. NSP

    NSP Well-Known Member

    I'll go with burned and clobbered by a hammer or otherwise bludgeoned. SGS MS69.
     
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  12. Brett_in_Sacto

    Brett_in_Sacto Well-Known Member

    I can say conclusively that it is "bad" damage. What do I win? :)
     
    Brett_in_Sacto, Aug 24, 2015
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  13. hotwheelsearl

    hotwheelsearl Well-Known Member

    You win the coin, if you want it :p
     
    hotwheelsearl, Aug 24, 2015
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  14. Brett_in_Sacto

    Brett_in_Sacto Well-Known Member

    Actually it looks like it may have been sitting in a wishing well / fountain or something similar. As if something else was on top that corroded it and the tiny holes are just more metal eaten away from corrosion.

    Put it in a metal box labeled "Mars Space Capsule" and bury it, then put the coordinates up on a geo-cache site.

    See if you make the news some day. :)
     
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  15. GDJMSP

    GDJMSP Numismatist Moderator

    First of all it's a fake coin. It first suffered corrosion, and then somebody (one they'd found it) scraped, filed, or ground away the plating to reveal the base metal underneath and confirm that it was a fake coin.
     
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