Unique "Stitched" Coin. Would love your thoughts and opinions.

Found this unique coin in my car's console. I have studied, and searched for another coin like this one. I have yet to find one! Interested in your thoughts and opinions.

 

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Unique for sure! Ditto what Doug says!

 

Interesting! I believe Doug is correct as well.

 

Aren't these people amazing!

 

a nice little work of art using some kind of tool.

 

What a cool find. PMD for sure, but well done and I'd put it in a flip as a conversation piece. Thanks for posting it.

 

Is the rim on the reverse side "stitched" too?

 

Very nice photo, Robin! You might want to get in the habit of cropping out the unnecessary background and using the "Full Image" option when you post your images. Some of the older members use their smart phones, and it makes it easier for them to view the coins. I use my desktop so it doesn't matter to me.

As a rule, you will rarely find information on coins with post-mint damage (PMD) because they are usually one-of-a-kind and do not have names assigned to them. The best thing you can do is post them, here, and see if anyone knows anything about them.

 

FrankenLincoln?

 

My Father, and I have used our coin microscope to check. This was definitely NOT hand done by someone. Same angle, spaced exactly the same. No scratches.

 

GOING TO WEIGH IT RIGHT NOW.

 

The back. . .

 

..kool coin...but i'm afraid i'd have to call it 'tooled'...

 

WEIGHT:
3.2

 

simply....

 

@Robin Mills
The key to identifying errors is understanding the minting and die making process. Some of the members answering your post are very knowledgeable of the process.

In a nutshell, there is nothing in the minting process that would produce a coin that looks like that. Sorry, but it can't happen.

Stick around and you'll learn a lot here, but as with anything new, it takes, time, patience, and effort

Here is a link that shows the minting process
https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=104&v=mqPvKxJXC_Y&feature=emb_title

 

Damaged , but cool.

 

my guess is a rim hammer used for bending/shaping metal parts

 

I hate to disagree with your father, and I definitely hate to argue with a woman, but you are both wrong. Take a look at the the cut rim at about 10 o'clock and compare it to the cut rims from 5-7 o'clock.

You can definitely see that the cut rim at 10:00 is longer than the cut rims between 5:00 and 7:00. This suggests that they were cut by hand. The person who did this had a pretty good eye for spacing, but not quite so good for applying an equal amount of pressure on every cut.

Nice try, but it won't fly!