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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clawcoins, post: 3149119, member: 77814&quot;]So .. I used to do jewelry stuff and musical instrument repair.</p><p><br /></p><p>When one does any hammering you do it on a hard surface, such as a hardened steel block.&nbsp; But you also use softer material to cushion stuff you only want to do slight work on.&nbsp; This comes in the form of softer material block, flat sheets of softened metal also did the trick.&nbsp; The problem is .. those things cost money and &quot;wear&quot; out and thus you have to buy more.</p><p><br /></p><p>Why am I telling you this? </p><p><br /></p><p>Well, there was an article a long time ago (early 90s) about just using your pocket change to buffer stuff.&nbsp; As, when it&#039;s damaged it&#039;s still worth face value.&nbsp; And you aren&#039;t essentially throwing away money using all the other stuff.&nbsp; So, as an example, even using a vice, we&#039;d use (usually copper) coins on either side of the vice to buffer the object from the hardened steel vice jaws.</p><p><br /></p><p>So coins can get damaged in an unlimited amount of methods.</p><p>Your coin could have been damaged over 60 years ago.&nbsp; You don&#039;t know exactly how.&nbsp; And we&#039;re just *guessing* .. but it certainly looks like a punch.&nbsp; For another example, See <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/post-your-pmd-post-mint-damage-coin.318993/#post-3119390" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/post-your-pmd-post-mint-damage-coin.318993/#post-3119390">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/post-your-pmd-post-mint-damage-coin.318993/#post-3119390</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The forum makes me wish I took a picture of each and every coin that I damaged over time for various things.&nbsp; I swear looking at some of them that I created a few ...&nbsp; although if I posted all that I might get expelled from the forum.&nbsp; LOL</p><p><br /></p><p>Truthfully, from my perspective it&#039;s not &quot;why would someone do this&quot; ... but &quot;why not&quot;.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Think of all the other uses ppl use coins for whether a functional use, or just boredom and not as a &quot;coin collector&quot; but think like the general public.&nbsp; And next time you throw a penny in a wishing well ...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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