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<p>[QUOTE="Clawcoins, post: 4319260, member: 77814"]Sorry, you misunderstood me.</p><p><br /></p><p>When my kids were younger they used to use coins all the time for artsy things. We'd make Christmas trees out of coins. They would try to make a hole using a tack and hammer, then use a nail, leaving these holes on the coins. You would see these holes time to time of ppl posting thinking they are mint errors. Then I taught them how to use a drill. They'd be unsuccessful some times but when they used the right drill bit it was no problem, otherwise they'd leave craters on coins. I'd hammer them to reshape the edges to the kids liking, etc etc. Or spin then in a chuck to, like you see, wipe away stuff on the coin. Of course I'm not the only person or kids in the world doing this stuff. The internet is littered with websites and blogs of using coins in artsy crafts; one just has to want to find it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I used to be a jeweler for a bit when younger, and did stuff with metal to make stuff when older. Looking at coins like this is easy to reproduce.</p><p><br /></p><p>The problem is, most of the time the coin holder dispels all this information, <i>no matter what</i>. </p><p><br /></p><p>Psychologically people *want* their coin to be the million dollar error. It because it has been driven into them from sham YouTube videos and clickbait websites that errors are easy to find in pocket change. Plus their knowledge and expertise is not great enough to know better as their desire far outweighs experienced logic.</p><p><br /></p><p>If it was so easy and worth so much don't you think everyone would do it?? especially over the years and decades thus the quantity would have been diminished? And how in the world does the mint make such a wide variety of errors/varieties and not care?? The answer is, they don't. They're all damaged. Hey, if I believed TV shows / fake web ads then I would go out to every barn and find an old car worth millions. And Beanie Babies ....</p><p><br /></p><p>But I have no desire to spend my time, even though it would not be much, to reproduce this. Just none. If my kids wanted it, sure why not. But this is one of those situations that we have seen time and time again where "no matter what" we won't convince the owner of it that it is damaged.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only way to prove oneself in these instances is to send it to get attributed as an error/variety by a TPG. Basically, "put your money where your mouth is" is the old adage. Though we've seen this in the past, many times. Normally the poster never returns, or actually does show it came back attributed damage or just in a body bag. "Live and learn" as another saying goes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Good luck.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Clawcoins, post: 4319260, member: 77814"]Sorry, you misunderstood me. When my kids were younger they used to use coins all the time for artsy things. We'd make Christmas trees out of coins. They would try to make a hole using a tack and hammer, then use a nail, leaving these holes on the coins. You would see these holes time to time of ppl posting thinking they are mint errors. Then I taught them how to use a drill. They'd be unsuccessful some times but when they used the right drill bit it was no problem, otherwise they'd leave craters on coins. I'd hammer them to reshape the edges to the kids liking, etc etc. Or spin then in a chuck to, like you see, wipe away stuff on the coin. Of course I'm not the only person or kids in the world doing this stuff. The internet is littered with websites and blogs of using coins in artsy crafts; one just has to want to find it. I used to be a jeweler for a bit when younger, and did stuff with metal to make stuff when older. Looking at coins like this is easy to reproduce. The problem is, most of the time the coin holder dispels all this information, [I]no matter what[/I]. Psychologically people *want* their coin to be the million dollar error. It because it has been driven into them from sham YouTube videos and clickbait websites that errors are easy to find in pocket change. Plus their knowledge and expertise is not great enough to know better as their desire far outweighs experienced logic. If it was so easy and worth so much don't you think everyone would do it?? especially over the years and decades thus the quantity would have been diminished? And how in the world does the mint make such a wide variety of errors/varieties and not care?? The answer is, they don't. They're all damaged. Hey, if I believed TV shows / fake web ads then I would go out to every barn and find an old car worth millions. And Beanie Babies .... But I have no desire to spend my time, even though it would not be much, to reproduce this. Just none. If my kids wanted it, sure why not. But this is one of those situations that we have seen time and time again where "no matter what" we won't convince the owner of it that it is damaged. The only way to prove oneself in these instances is to send it to get attributed as an error/variety by a TPG. Basically, "put your money where your mouth is" is the old adage. Though we've seen this in the past, many times. Normally the poster never returns, or actually does show it came back attributed damage or just in a body bag. "Live and learn" as another saying goes. Good luck.[/QUOTE]
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