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<p>[QUOTE="ewomack, post: 3601730, member: 15588"]I have an appreciation for beautifully mutilated coinage and this is another nice example. Worn and mutilated coins have completed their economic duties (or perhaps run over by heavy machinery, or both). </p><p><br /></p><p>My first impression, before seeing the reverse, was 1959, now I know that's impossible. Looking at pictures of undefiled 1939 cents, the shape of the third number from left doesn't really match all that well. The number may be just too mutilated to compare it to better preserved specimens. Nonetheless, I would have to go with either a "2" or a "3," purely through elimination of "1" and "4." Given that the final number really looks like a "9," that should rule out "5" as well. </p><p><br /></p><p>Another possibility is that the cent was tooled or messed with in some way - perhaps someone had some fun playing around with the date? I inherited a bunch of wheaties a while back from someone who had access to a machine shop and metalworking tools and I could tell that the person, or someone, had a good time messing with the dates and letters on many of the coins. Some of them even resemble the coin posted.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ewomack, post: 3601730, member: 15588"]I have an appreciation for beautifully mutilated coinage and this is another nice example. Worn and mutilated coins have completed their economic duties (or perhaps run over by heavy machinery, or both). My first impression, before seeing the reverse, was 1959, now I know that's impossible. Looking at pictures of undefiled 1939 cents, the shape of the third number from left doesn't really match all that well. The number may be just too mutilated to compare it to better preserved specimens. Nonetheless, I would have to go with either a "2" or a "3," purely through elimination of "1" and "4." Given that the final number really looks like a "9," that should rule out "5" as well. Another possibility is that the cent was tooled or messed with in some way - perhaps someone had some fun playing around with the date? I inherited a bunch of wheaties a while back from someone who had access to a machine shop and metalworking tools and I could tell that the person, or someone, had a good time messing with the dates and letters on many of the coins. Some of them even resemble the coin posted.[/QUOTE]
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