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<p>[QUOTE="cladking, post: 1179858, member: 68"]I believe the reason most coins get their rims removed is so they can be carried as a pocket pice and wear down much more rapidly. The rim protects a coin from wear and when it's removed the coin wears very rapidly and will eventualy hide the signs of the tooling. It don't believe this one is worn nearly so much yet since it still looks filed.</p><p><br /></p><p>To prove it set it on a flat surface with the reverse down and push at a point just inside of the rim with a sharp object. If it's natural wear the coin will move slightly because coins wear into a lens shape. But if the rim is filed as I believe the reverse will still be nearly flat and the coin won't move until you press near the rim. </p><p><br /></p><p>The obverse on these was made convex at the mint and it will wobble and it will wobble a great deal because the rims are gone. </p><p><br /></p><p>Another twenty or thirty years in circulation and the tooling would be invisible.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cladking, post: 1179858, member: 68"]I believe the reason most coins get their rims removed is so they can be carried as a pocket pice and wear down much more rapidly. The rim protects a coin from wear and when it's removed the coin wears very rapidly and will eventualy hide the signs of the tooling. It don't believe this one is worn nearly so much yet since it still looks filed. To prove it set it on a flat surface with the reverse down and push at a point just inside of the rim with a sharp object. If it's natural wear the coin will move slightly because coins wear into a lens shape. But if the rim is filed as I believe the reverse will still be nearly flat and the coin won't move until you press near the rim. The obverse on these was made convex at the mint and it will wobble and it will wobble a great deal because the rims are gone. Another twenty or thirty years in circulation and the tooling would be invisible.[/QUOTE]
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