is this worth anything?

I would only want brutal honesty....or what would be the point. I respect everyone's input..and especially your knowledge. I know I came to the right place ( and it was a shot in the dark for me finding and choosing this site ). I know that this is where I will direct anyone's questions on coins! My husband inherited a small coin collection from his dad...mmmm. I hope no one feels "used" that I just popped on this site and and tapped into everyone's expertise. Thanks again!
Linda

 

Log in or Sign up to hide this ad.

Jimmy Hendrix once said in a song, you can ‘t believe eve thing you see and hear

I agree with the lathe theory also, but have it checked by a professional in your area just to make sure.

 

Yup, I'd be willing to stake my entire collection on the fact that your coin was lathed, for whatever reason. Possibly to fool collecters, or maybe it was done so the reverse of a dime could be fit in, as a novelty. Regardless, I would keep the coin. It started life as a wheat penny, and is still a nice example of post mint damage (PMD has no value over face, but often makes for an interesting conversation piece). What ever you decide to do, I hope this does not keep you and your husband from exploring deeper into the category of error coins. There are many 'fake' errors like yours out there, but for every one of those, there is likely two undiscovered genuine errors.

 

Yes those are lathe lines, and you are right about how a one sided coin can be struck. However in the cases where that happens the blank side is NOT flat and smooth. Also the anvil coin is extremely sharply struck with very high rims. The hammer coin will not fit down into the coining chamber completely so it will show a very pronounced railroad rim on the design side.

 

I'll have to go with the others and say that it has been tampered with. Sorry. But still a neat find. :thumb:

Phoenix

 

Hmm. I turned down a few dimes, copper cents a while back, when I was making coin knives. They looked just like that.

The details that still on the modified revs come from a change in hardness of the copper and pressure on the cutter. A little bit of slop in the cutting tool or chuck and it will leave a bit of raised detail behind.

Here’s my original post.
http://www.cointalk.org/showthread.php?t=10235&highlight=happycobra

 

its still a wheat and worth a couple cents, and it looks neat! kindof reminds me of an ebay blank. dj, a real error like this on a dime would be worth about $3.50. i'm not good with errors though.

 

Definitely machined. Mostly likely one half of a magicians two headed/tailed coin or a novelty coin where half a cent is married to half a dime that has also been machined.

 

No, nobody feels used.
We love helping people out.
The people here have taught me so much, it nearly brings a tear to my eye to think about it.
We are all here to inform people by sharing our knowledge.
Please feel free to stick around and share the rest of your husbands coins.
Tell him to get on here and say hello, too.

 

I agree with Dockwalliper 100%....very easily distinguishable PLURIBUS on the bottom right of that lathed Lincoln.

 

For trick coins, that is what one side would look like before the coin gets adhered to something else (usually a disappearing coin trick or a two headed coin). Looks like someone started it, and then didn't finish for whatever reason.

Maybe they were getting ready to make a disappearing dime coin and accidentally lathed off the rim, then just spent the penny. Look in the October Contests thread and someone posted an example of a scotch and soda coin which makes a mexican peso (or british penny) disappear into a kennedy half dollar.

 

definitely can read PLURIBUS on the bottom of the pictured coin. Kind of cool and exciting when you find something odd though!

 

Someone with moderate knowledge in tools could have locked the coin in place with a rubber edge vice and sanded it down with a cylindrical sand bit for a drill press. That could explain the perfect accuracy of the circles and the smoothed off backside.

Still, you may be able to accomplish that with just a power-drill as well, but you'd have to have a very steady arm and sharp accuracy in aim.

The sand bit didn't quite rub the edge with as much friction, which is normal, and some letters remained.

Might have been part of metal sculpture & someone wanted to speed things up by sanding some coins down...and there was an extra left over.

 

That is defiantly post mint. it was cased by a metal lath someone just messing around would be my bet.

Just saw how old this thread was sry to dig one up thats so old.

 

The bottom definately says 'PLURIBUS'
Ergo, a ground off reverse.