Well this is unique!

Perusing through the latest CNG auction and apparently someone decided to test their shredders strength with an Aureus! Never seen something like this before and I must say I wish the story behind this came with the sale! Haha.



Please post any uniquely damaged coins you may own!

 

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At a first look they resembled the medieval Spanish gold!

 

I didn't save a photo but I did once learn the hard way that medieval Slavonian silver denars are no match for an office paper shredder!

 

Found this one penny roll hunting recently.

 

That's some damnatio memoriae right there!

 

I mean... I guess you could glue it together haha

 

In my opinion, this thread could really use a viewer discretion warning.

 

Well, that's 1800 years of history down the drain.

 

I still don’t get it. How exactly does a coin get shredded, especially a 4-figure one? I love the description of provenance “shredded thereafter”

 

Huh, I thought I remembered a faint scream, carried on the wind on that date. Now I know why!

 

This is why cars and coins don't mix hard to tell but its a nickel.

 

the same type
https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=117543

 

That gives a whole new meaning to the term "bad day". Jeepers.

 

Can you imagine the immediate feeling after realizing you did this?

 

And mine can barely deal with paperclips. CNG missed the mark not disclosing the make/model of the shredder!

 

Heres one

 

Destroyed in shredder. Otherwise, extremely fine

 

Wow... I believe the current owner of CNG occasionally posts here. Anyone remember his user name to see if we could get more to the story??

 

Should have put this in my OP but I kinda wanna bid on this and display the fragments like the Shards of Narsil....



And maybe if the winner of this coin puts it back together they will get to be the next King of Rome.