Show off a "Problem Coin"

Anyways, Most people want to stay away from problem coins, cleaned, corroded, scratched, Etc. Anyways, I never saw this topic and decided to start a subject on it. Sometimes, Problem coins can make it so you can buy a coin you normally can't afford problem free, other times you get more details but bad surfaces cheaper.

I will start off with this cleaned Farthing I got for a quarter.

 

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Nice Topic.. Here is one I picked up for a dime. Granted it was while roll hunting and it was bent heavily. I flattened it most of the way out by sandwiching it between two pieces of wood and smacking it with a hammer.

 

Wow, what exactly happened to that Flying Eagle?

 

I can't imagine anyone hating this coin to do this:

 

Cleaned with a small damage spot. The missing letters is just from a filled die.

 

Well, I can chip in a rerun from this thread:

 

What story could this tell? Defacing the king's portrait at the time of the revolution.

 

Some of these make me sad, but some just have character. The 1914-D cent is one that makes me sad; the 1876 holed collection and the "beheaded" French coin have character, in my eyes.

 

Not so sure about my memorial cent here. I'm still kinda wavering on whether it ~officially~ has an "According-to-Hoyle problem" or not.

SO on the fence about this one...

 

Picked this up for $35 if memory serves. Knew what I was getting........a problem coin, but my love for the 'soldier of the south' could't resist adding another to the collection.....

 

Awesome coin, pretty cool to try to think of the story behind it.

 

My first coin I ever purchased. Paid $80. Semi key date 1915 P Barber half. Been cleaned at some point, and some of it was me rubbing it, before I knew better. Covered in hairlines.

 

That Barber is still nice enough to be a filler in my collection.

 

Cracked this one out of an AU details slab. They called it cleaned, but I don't see a hairline on it anywhere, to me it looks like someone heated it up along the way.

 

Neat thread. Think my favorite so far is the 1883 dime for a dime.

 

You know what, I have to get more creative than my first Farthing.

Here is a King George II Halfpenny that was turned into a child's "whizzer" toy. You would drill two holes and put a string in each hole then wind it up and it will spin like a saw blade.

I found it metal detecting at a 200 year old school house so it also has some corrosion.


IMHO it is way cooler than most of the Colonial Coppers that I find metal detecting. I think the "Damage" gives it character.