Hello all, I am new to this site and still fairly new to coin collecting. I have come across two coins that I am curious about. Here are the links: http://i1153.photobucket.com/albums/p516/stryker154/IMG_0453.jpg http://i1153.photobucket.com/albums/p516/stryker154/IMG_0452.jpg http://i1153.photobucket.com/albums/p516/stryker154/IMG_0451.jpg http://i1153.photobucket.com/albums/p516/stryker154/IMG_0450.jpg I am pretty sure the dime is just an off center strike and that it is not worth very much. It is the penny that intrigues me. The front left has a very rough feel to it, and the back has strange swirls imprinted on it. If anyone could shed some light on what I might have here, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance!
Not real good on these, but the cent appears to be a vice job. Gripper vice jaw on the front and another coin on the reverse.
Can not tell what the dime is, you need to take a more direct pic of it. As for the penny its basically a penny that someone pounded on with a hammer, or crushed in a vice or something along those lines.
The penny looks like half of it sat in acid for a while, but that reverse almost looks like the circular whirls of a fingerprint, or some type of vice.
The penny was more probably exposed to a blow torch or some other spot-source of heat, hence the concentric circles: layers where the metal annealed, melted, and solidified at different times. The dime could be a number of things.
