Never heard it before. Amusing and true. Thanks for sharing.
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Very nice binary. You just never know when you are going to pick up a keeper.
Might it also possibly be from being held by the edge in a device while heat was applied to the reverse? Just thinking outside the box since...
As a side collection I collect Coin Club Tokens and Spinner tokens. There is no way someone can collect all of them, so there never will be a set....
If you don't need the most up to date edition you can pick one up on eBay for +/_ $30.
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Thanks for saying "humorous" instead of sarcastic. But it was meant to be sarcastic. Thats just the way I roll.
I have an older silver certificate with a similar type of off center first printing error. The X prefix indicated an experimental run. The XB, YB,...
These uncut sheets of four bills are worth way more than face value. Depending on the year they can fetch from $10 to $75 per sheet. Look on eBay...
Can you make the pictures any smaller? I can almost make out it is a cent.
To me this is a damaged coin since the reverse has obviously been partially plated. Most likely a flash of gold.
Wow, there was sure a lot of grease/gunk on that die!
I agree with @SensibleSal66. Lamination and gunk. You can see the striations from the bad metal mix in the first reverse picture.
In your opening paragraph you said "I bet you won't believe" you win!
I don't believe this story!
I hope you give CTers first shot at them!
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I find that there is no gamble if you collect what you like to look at and have no intentions of ever selling it. My heirs can get what they can...
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