How and why would someone do this to a coin

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  1. Guy Ferguson

    Guy Ferguson Member

    I'll put in my ten cents on this. I got these out of a bag of world coins I was given IMG_0804.JPG
     
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  3. Guy Ferguson

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  4. john65999

    john65999 Well-Known Member

    making a neat paperclip?
     
  5. potty dollar 1878

    potty dollar 1878 Well-Known Member

    Anything besides a silver coin!!!:banghead::banghead:.
     
  6. john65999

    john65999 Well-Known Member

    someone tried to "make" an error coin,. here are my examples that vendors tried to pass off as error coins (they should of known better!!!) in both instances, ebay refund and they told me to keep them (go figure) though i have returned another 3 or so that they wanted back 9presumedly to try and sell again) 263291440_1061301374655524_5404756183086270703_n.jpg 263423388_693641341608524_78982695542599340_n.jpg 263653672_429042985518325_5811488223042528580_n.jpg 262755480_501693010965148_7985292823191987865_n.jpg 263259559_938319930224099_5444932585979530614_n.jpg 263323486_1026816381200846_3045603040777716502_n.jpg 263943318_1054156748651967_1239691103154109457_n.jpg
     
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  7. john65999

    john65999 Well-Known Member

    dating yourself on that comment, i know what it means, but only cuz me Da' used to say it all the time..(thanks for bringing back that memory of him!
     
  8. Vertigo

    Vertigo Did someone say bust?

    I used a machine like this one to open a safe. This is a large stationary metal shear. It mangled the walker and the Kennedy. No way i was sending it to the melting pot without seeing what was inside
     

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  9. Mountain Man

    Mountain Man Supporter! Supporter

    We'll never know for sure, but helped create two pages of posts here. LOL
     
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  10. Mr.Q

    Mr.Q Well-Known Member

    Wrong, the idiot that did it knows also! No pun intended GDJMSP.
     
  11. john65999

    john65999 Well-Known Member

    a little overkill, back when i was doing a scrap job at lincoln tech (used to be a hotel) i had the opportunity to get 5 safes, ranging in size from a very small one to a 6 foot tall by 3 foot wide, and 5 foot deep safe, all came open easy with sawsall to the hinges and prybar, my nephew had em open in a matter of minutes..the large one was a 12,000.00 safe (i looked it up) the ease at which they all opened makes one wonder of the efficacy of the inkling of security one thinks a safe holds..but if i had your machine, heck might of tried it for the fun of it....that was one of my bigger gc/scrapping jobs we removed ofer 40 tonss of metal including 12 tons of stainless steel, 1 ton of industrial batteries, and 3000 pounds of copper, among every other metal you can imagine, took over a month with 5 employees working 50 hour weeks...after salaries, gasoline was biggest expense, my 450 xl super duty (old sherrif prisoner transport van) and my big tex trailer made 3 trips to and from the scrap yard a day, and i used up both tanks, trip to the dump was only 6 miles round trip and 30 mile round trip empty to and from my house...fun times
     
  12. Vertigo

    Vertigo Did someone say bust?

    It was overkill but it sure was fun! You should have seen some of the crazy things we did with that machine! It was more for the "here let's try this"
    I had a torch but didn't know what was inside and didn't want to burn anything up. I got into many old safes there but this was the only one with anything remotely nice. It was mainly a large penny collection. With a few odds and ends of other things.
     
  13. john65999

    john65999 Well-Known Member

    the large safe we "cracked" had 11 coin trays for cash registers, some 20 year old cc carbon copies and 2 lincoln cents, the others had varying types of valuables as they were room safes...not bad, a little bonus..ya never know what your gonna find scrapping, especially at a 80 year old hotel
     
  14. dwhiz

    dwhiz Collector Supporter

    @SensibleSal66
    Funny you should ask.
    Just yesterday I went to see the New Hope & Railroad and put a quarter on the track and #40 did a fine job.
    Thanks for asking. New Hope and Ivyland #40 12 5 21-vert.jpg
     
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  15. dwhiz

    dwhiz Collector Supporter

    @@SensibleSal66
    I do have more Runover 89a-horz-vert.jpg 3 25c on rr track-vert.jpg
     
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  16. manny9655

    manny9655 Well-Known Member

    People used to do that with the Abe Lincoln and William McKinley funeral trains. They'd put an IHC on the tracks and then keep it as a souvenir. Here's one from McKinley's funeral train that the owner had counterstamped. BTW, the inscription was McKinley's last words. funeral train coin.jpg
     
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  17. GDJMSP

    GDJMSP Numismatist Moderator

    Yup, I'm just a whippersnapper :cool:

    What ? You don't remember the movie from 1994 ? :)

    I'm quite happy it triggered a fond memory for you ;)
     
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