Purposely Ruined Coins

This is going to fit like a glove...

Since my pup been Ill my coin budget has been in the negative....but no worries ....anyway I still window shop. I quite offten share finds with other member friends. On a daily basis I hear from a well known member here on my cel phone with his finds... yes us variety guys get very passionate about the hunt as well the find.
Well I ran across a really nice as well rare seated Liberty quarter. I sent my friend Nathan a member here a link to it just in case he was interested. I told him to go for it as I was tapped out on the coin budget.

So the next thing I know is I recieved a text message saying that he purchased it and gifting it to me. Wow...... Speechless. Thank you so much the FS -901 is a very rare variety clashed with a FEC as can be well seen on the images posted.

 

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All on IHC host coin

 

That one I like. Counter stamped coins have some really interesting history to research. I have to take this one off any list of ruined coins, unless of course it was a key U.S. coin.

 

Here is one with a much more obscure origin.

I'm still in the dark about who might be it's creator.

Z

 

I see you have posted this on another forum? I did find a Margaret Bell Wilcot but the dates are not close to this 1922 coin. (Ancestry.com)

 

Yep, definitely ruined and it would have made for a space filler until something better came along.

 

Zoid gets around donchakno . . . . . .

I found the same reference to Margaret Bell Wilcot. Seems she only lived twenty years (1870 - 1890) and left two children on her passing. Perhaps this unique counter-stamped Peace Dollar was made in honor of Mom, who died way too young.

Assuming Margaret was around 16 / 18 when her children were born, this Peace Dollar wasn't minted until her oldest child would have been in his / her early 30's.

Z

 

Speaking of "Purposely Ruined Coins", here is another "genre" of ruined coins for your consideration . . . . .

Z

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Found in the coinstar reject slot today.

 

Hobo nickels are cool if they are old. If they are beyond redemption as collectible today, that's okay also. They are serving a purpose as an art form. I guess the ones that really bother me are stuff like plated coins, stickered coins, painted coins all done after the fact and not some Mint issued coins.

 

My sister gave me these and I was really pumped up until I opened the box. I didn't tell her what I planned to do with them; I just thanked her and smiled.

 

Another realm of "purposely ruined coins" are those "defaced" as an honorarium for members of fellowships, brotherhoods, or "secret societies" . . . . Masonic Pennies are just such pieces.

These are a bit more difficult to obtain. Most more modern Masonic Pennies are stamped from dedicated dies, but there are earlier examples where the host coin was a large cent or English penny.

This is the singular example that I own.

Z

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Another ruined coin I recently picked up.

If this one doesn't give you heart palpitations, nothing will . . . . .

Z

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