Coin mishandling

What's the greatest coin you've ever seen mutilated, polished, hole-punched, or otherwise ruined by someone outside the realm of normal circulation?

 

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well just last night i went into my tool box to grab one of my brass brushes to clean an ancient and grabed a stainless steel one... lets just say that coin no longer exists as anything more then a small disc with scratch marks on it :headbang:

 

My dealer has a 1794 cent with a hole punched through it at the 1 o'clock position.

 

My friend Chris (works at Heritage) has a Dansco 7070 US Type Coin album with a twist. All the coins back to 1799 have a hole in them. It is a beautiful collection. He is actively looking for a Lafayette Dollar with a hole in it. It must be a contemporary hole (a hole that was created while the coin was circulating).

Very best regards,
collect89

 

A dealer I go to showed me a high relief 1907 St. Gaudens that was whizzed so bad I could tell from about two feet away before he handed it to me , to bad even with the hack job you could tell it was a beautiful coin .
rzage

 

I was having some trouble the other night too, cleaning a Numerian antoninianus with a lot of dirt on the reverse. I gently picked away the dirt, but accidentally took a bunch of the silvering away with it. The problems could easily be buffed away, but I don't have the tools for that.

 

I bought a 1917-S (reverse) Walking Liberty Half dollar that must have been in AU+ condition except somone apparently cleaned it up with some steel wool or something - many fine surface scratches.

about half its value was taken away with the cleaning

at least the person I sold it to was happy. said it replaced their old coin by at least 2 grades.

 

I've been going thru my late grandfather's collection and I found an 1891 quarter with what appeared to be impact marks in it from an attempted drill job. there were marks on both sides but what was weird is that it pushed the metal out on the other side of the impact point.. so it looks like it wasn't a drill bit but rather some sort of punch that was used.

 

Had a 1885 Morgan Dollar that was cleaned with toothpaste. How do I know that, my son-in-law told me he did it. It doesn't look to bad.

 

I saw an 1877 Indian Head Cent on Ebay a while back that looked like someone had cut it a few times with a hack saw, maybe the wife of a collector upset that he had spent that kind of money on a coin! I posted a pic of it a while back in here somewhere.

 

1805 Half Eagle with very nice initials carved into the field on the left of the obverse. The carving was so nice and fancy it was probably done in the 1800's. Just saw this coin on Saturday - details were high AU to MS. Darn shame.

 

it takes guts to whiz a HR!

 

you mean this set, right?

lol, I am definately looking for a holed LaFayette, so far no luck.

I'm gonna have to update those old photos; there are a number of upgrades since they were taken.

Chris

 

I had no Idea you worked at heritage...
Nice set ( in the link)

 

Too bad I tossed them all but... The worst I have personally seen have been placed on raildroad tracks, lol. I am not saying "I have done it" but uhhh.... yeah sure, thats mos-def the most rotten mishandling I have seen, hahahaa. Anyhow I digress, let me get back to the topic.

I have a peace dollar that I thought looked nice, but apparently the pics taken used strong enough light to wash out what I noticed when I had it in hand. I paid about 23 bucks for it, I will have to photo shoot it and put on this thread. It appears to have been dipped in a silver solution. The obverse is obvious imo, and the reverse is pretty decent. On the rim you can spot where the dip ended and the original surface is. Thats pretty crappy imo, sheesh, dip the whole damn thing. I saw those gold and silver flakes on ebay now I know why i see some ebay dealers selling them! <hint hint>

 

3 morgans and 2 peace dollars that my grandpa had me take a silver knife to when I was alot younger. I said that I didn't think this was a good idea. He said just make sure that the knife was silver (because it wouldn't cause any damage)and to scrape it across the surface at the same angle to remove the discoloration. I didn't do a couple of the others as they were shiny enough to meet his approval. Wonder if a dip(overdip) could remove the damage and just make them be worn instead of damaged?

 

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Try to keep coins within protective holders. Use the best approved holders for the more expensive coins If you absolutely must touch a coin, do so on its edge. Invisible oil, dirt, etc. on fingers can damage coins over time. When laying a coin down, make sure it’s on a soft, clean surface Never allow coins to drag against other coins or surfaces. Eliminate temptations to clean a coin. Unless done by a professional, a cleaned coin nearly always, always drops in value. Cleaning a coin should be done only when absolutely necessary and for conservation purposes. If you had an old, valuable painting, you’d never dust, clean or touch it up yourself. Think of coins in this way. Store coins in a controlled environment with low humidity and moderate temperatures.
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Holed 1864 5 French Franc
Hate it when folk hole/mount gold coins it just looks so much messier than on silver imo -about a quarter of the silver thrupnees that I have are holed.