Found this the other day, what to get a ball park of how much its worth. Blank on heads side, thinner then full dime. Thanks in advance
yup, as Seattlite states .. it was damaged / machined / ground down *after* the mint by someone who wanted to do it.
Always be cautious with Post Mint Damage (PMD). It may occur intentionally or unintentionally, but it is far more frequent of a cause of funny looking coins than actual Mint errors. But the Mint does make those errors and infrequently enough to add value at different levels depending on they type and severity of the error. I had a blank cent many years ago and thought it should be worth a bundle. It turned out to be worth about $5.
of all the machining I used to do in the past and use of coins for various tests (aka, damaging the wazoo out of them) and using them as buffers, I've never quite figured out why one would grind down a coin. But there's so many that we see it's obvious there was a reason ppl would do this. With the little drill hole in the middle I would think it was glued to something at some point. coins were cheap to test new drill bits on though to see how well they cut through. For instance comparing various small annular bits vs hole or regular drill bits to see which is best at leaving no cut through burrs. ahhh ... someone reading this is having a convulsion ... now that I think of it ... maybe someone used a forstner bit on that?
No. @Marshall didnt do a very good job making that clear. What Marshall meant was most funny coins are actually PMD. Some are errors and have a little to a lot of value. Yours is definitely not an error.
What Seattlite86 said. Plus, sending any coin into a Third Party Grader is far too expensive an undertaking for coins under $50-$100 in value. It makes no sense to spend $15-$20 to grade a coin that would only be worth $20 if it was an error. And yours is definitely not an error.
okay, so it didn't have a hole. Still could be the same thing .. anyways, it was machined. Look at the scratch marks on it. Investigate what you see and research. Don't disregard what you don't know .. which is the hardest thing because you don't know what you don't know. I've just happened to have small, light machining background for years on various things. Plus I do various things to coins for my daughters artsy stuff. lol
I had an older cousin that used to spend hours grinding down cents to make them work in a 10 cent pop machine so as to save 9 cents. Figure the economy on that one. He talked me into trying it one time. I put the freshly ground cent into a pop machine and the owner of the store burst out of the building and started yelling at me. Ended my career in crime.
