Why would someone dew this?

Howdy peeps,

At my business, I get peeps through here all day long and on my regulars, they know I collect coins and they are constantly bringing me garbage to look at, thinking they have something special and I let them down nicely but some of it makes me laugh, like a circulated 1964-D Lincoln. :goofer: Anyways, one of the coins that recently showed up was an interesting 1964 Jefferson nickel and while it's only worth a nickel (maybe), except for Ebay where everything is rare and worth a fortune, it is quite interesting.








The question I asked, when I saw it, was why would anyone do that to a poor little nickel but I guess someone had way too much time on their hands. :goofer: It looks to me like they cut the grooves into it, then hollowed out the edge and filled it with solder but I haven't a clue why.

Anyways, I thought it was interesting and figured I'd share it with ya'll. :hug:

Ribbit


Ps: For you Lincoln lovers, sorry, I did not take pics of the 64-D. :goof:

 

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Oh oh....I think someone really ruined that coin, and whizzed the crap out of it

 

You already answered your own question,

Someone had Way too much time on their hands.

 

Anyone planning on starting a damaged coin collection. That will fit perfectly.

 

You know this is one of the things that really gets to me. What dope jerk idiot thinks this is an amusement? So many good coins ruined fo WHAT?
That nickel is not fit for circulation and how do you turn in coins like that?
AAaarrrrrgh!

 

I think it was a city civil servant worker. They typically have a lot of hang time

 

Ha ha. If I get bored one day I may have to try that.

 

I don't understand why people get so worked up about a 5 cent coin that was probably very much circulated in the first place. It's not as if we're dealing with museum quality material here. In fact, that particular coin has a more interesting story to tell than most coins anyway. I think it looks funny, but not as funny as the coin I once laid on the railroad tracks

 

Why would someone carve up a '64 nickel like that? Probably because he didn't have the talent to carve it like this:

 

I guess the learning curve is steep for coin carving. Nice Nickel!

 

Hobo-vs-64

cool nickel…the one with the hobo.

 

No kidding, your not loosing any part of your heritage.
What about the coin that I plastered in oven cleaner, and let it sit there overnight just to see what will happen to it.
BTW, have any of you folk come across it yet in your loose change?

 

Just someone who was bored. Same way we got spooned coins.

 

I wonder if that is one of my coins? I used to do that in high school. You get bored in shop class and take a pair of tin snips that make a sun burst. I must have done hundreds and then spent them.

I also used to spraypaint quarters with dayglow orange paint as well. I used to work the grave yard shift and took a toll road so I painted them so that i could see the orange quarters in the car at night.

 

I don't get it ?

 

...........can't imagine why anyone would dew such a thing?

 

Hobo you have a great talent!!!
I wish I could do that!!!

 

Now that's what I call being dramatic.

I have. Several times. And I don't really pay that much attention to my pocket change and never did roll searching in my life.

Like I said, a kid grabbed a coin that wasn't worth more than 5 cents and had a ton of fun with it. What's the big deal?

 

I guess it's dew to rarity, since only a billion of these were minted, it must be hard to find one to fill that elusive hole in their Whitman folder.

Ribbit

 

I wish I could do that, too. I didn't carve that nickel. I bought it.