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<p>[QUOTE="Collector1966, post: 1186000, member: 17919"]I'm 95% sure your coin has been tampered with outside of the Mint, most likely in a machine shop or high school shop class. For example, I think it would be impossible for the Mint to produce a coin with the bizarre edge that your coin has-- it looks like it has been intentionally shaved. When I was in high school, some of my classmates in shop class would do that sort of thing to a coin and try to sell it to me as an error.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also mint luster can be simulated with a process known as "whizzing". </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://reviews.ebay.com/What-is-a-apos-Whizzed-apos-Coin_W0QQugidZ10000000003194675?ssPageName=BUYGD:CAT:-1:LISTINGS:2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://reviews.ebay.com/What-is-a-apos-Whizzed-apos-Coin_W0QQugidZ10000000003194675?ssPageName=BUYGD:CAT:-1:LISTINGS:2" rel="nofollow">http://reviews.ebay.com/What-is-a-apos-Whizzed-apos-Coin_W0QQugidZ10000000003194675?ssPageName=BUYGD:CAT:-1:LISTINGS:2</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Collector1966, post: 1186000, member: 17919"]I'm 95% sure your coin has been tampered with outside of the Mint, most likely in a machine shop or high school shop class. For example, I think it would be impossible for the Mint to produce a coin with the bizarre edge that your coin has-- it looks like it has been intentionally shaved. When I was in high school, some of my classmates in shop class would do that sort of thing to a coin and try to sell it to me as an error. Also mint luster can be simulated with a process known as "whizzing". [url]http://reviews.ebay.com/What-is-a-apos-Whizzed-apos-Coin_W0QQugidZ10000000003194675?ssPageName=BUYGD:CAT:-1:LISTINGS:2[/url][/QUOTE]
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