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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;VistaCruiser69, post: 5137847, member: 107016&quot;]Looks like after this dime left the mint the rim was bent and then hammered back to shape.&nbsp; The missing letters were pounded out when the coin was hammered back into shape.&nbsp; I know from when we were kids and shot dimes with bb guns. The bb&#039;s would bend the coin at the impact area and then we would set the dime on a flat surface and pound the bend out. Where the impact area was pounded back, whatever part of the coins features were there would look pretty much like what the &quot;T&quot; and the &quot;Y&quot; on this dime looks like.&nbsp; The dime also looks to have been sandblasted and/or exposed to some type of chemical.&nbsp; I&#039;m leaning towards sandblasted, as I did that to a coin, or two when I was a kid and had access to a sandblaster.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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