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Message:: [QUOTE="Howard Black, post: 3562027, member: 97119"]I guess. I've seen countless coins that some !#@$% spent considerable effort gouging away at the bust. Maybe he hated that president, who knows. I dread the day I find a 1955 DDO (or equivalent) that's gouged to hell. The thing is, those depressing depressions look like they were made with some round object with an ACME thread. It's better seen with the eye, but can be "sorta" seen in the images (I tried to use different angles to give a better look into the interior). The stories this coin could tell... when I have a coin of that age I always wonder if it was carried in the pocket of some poor soul in the trenches of WWI, or the battles of WWII (or both), and then there was the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and on and on and on. [Edit: Maybe the enemy was coming over the hill, and just then the squad's machinegun jammed, and someone saved the day by sticking this coin in between two threaded components that were binding. How's that for creating writing? <g>] And, of course, I always wonder if maybe my father had it with him during the war. Slim odds for certain, but still...[/QUOTE]