Might as well give one of them away...
4/21/21: This contest is now CLOSED. Winner was announced in Post #80. Here is a 50-billion-dollar ($50,000,000,000!) banknote from Zimbabwe,...
YOU DON'T WANT THAT!!! Trust me. :nailbiting: Just ask ladymarcovan. She'll tell you.
Oh, I dunno. Aliens could make it a lot more valuable. Depends on the type of radiation, and whether you're talkin' Planet Znutar or just plain...
Heat can cause warping when the metal softens up.
Having had a powerful electrical current go through it is another possible scenario, maybe, but that sorta falls under the same category as heat.
That happens. Stare at a weird coin like this long enough, and you’re bound to see all kinds of stuff. It’s certainly unusual looking. But...
Don’t see any crack. Just lots of micro-pitting. Any linear arrangement that makes that look like a crack is likely coincidental (pareidolia).
I don’t see any off-centered rim. Sure, part of the rim is gone but it appears to have been a side effect of whatever caused the damage....
As it happens, I just got some of those nifty hyperinflationary 50-billion-dollar notes from Zimbabwe. Got change for Z$50B? :p
I’m surprised the zinc core didn’t get exposed by the damage on that one. Must’ve had a pretty good copper layer on it.
Yep. BB or pellet gun, I’d say. Good shootin’.
Yowch. Yep. #1: roadkill. #2 somebody had a grudge against that one. PS- I like the copper and bronze group in your avatar. Looks nice, unlike...
Bumping this old thread back up into the sunlight, just because. (I came here to find it because I was linking up to it from a recent discussion...
Yes, these are cool coins. The type is KM#53. I had one that got made into a WW1 "trench art" (love token) piece.
Cool find! I thought that looked like a proof. Silver, too! Awesome. BTW, you just won a prize in @CoinJockey73’s Giveaway #2. Check your...
Post-mint damage. Caused by heat, I would imagine. That is the only plausible explanation for that bulging on the head that I can come up with....
That's the only one I did that with, though I had three slabs with that defect. The others were sold as-is, inside their bloated NGC slabs, and...
It was a defective slab. NGC has a quality control issue where some slabs weirdly bloat over time, as if they’re going to explode. Must be from...
Pretty place.
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