Worst coins ever! Post your dogs.

BigsWick: Is that a clip, or post-mint damage? I don't think it's a clip, because I don't see the contralateral weakness, but I'm curious.

Randy: Okay. That's ridiculous. Your first "coin" doesn't count, unless you can tell me what that deformed piece of metal is. Your second one is absolutely priceless. You should put it on eBay so we can bid it up to a million bucks.

 

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Nice work, Jim! That is a gigantic piece of garbage!!!

Really, though.. it's a nice filler piece.

 

here's one I think qualifies!

 

I'm pretty sure it is post-mint. I had a couple guys on this site look at it a few years ago and they all agreed it didn't happen at the mint.

 

ziggy: Can you attribute that "coin"? I know nothing about ancients, but if you actually know what that is, you should go work for the Smithsonian or something.

Bigswick: I, too, think it is post-mint. My fancy learnin' tells me that a minted clipped coin will have weakness of the strike on the rim, opposite of the clip. This is called the Blakesley effect.

 

Thank you borgovan. I do like the obverse as well with the streaks, but the reverse looks kinda dull and ugly.

 

Its a Byzantine follis, probably of Justin II. His coins are notoriously ugly.

 

here are a couple of uglies....especially the first one!

I don't really know what they are...I have some more, but I'm still working on the distilled water business with them.

 

Those are some beauties

 

beautiful enough for me to hide in a box = )

 

Those ancients are some really rough stuff!

I don't know how you guys have the patience to work with those things. I spend my time deciding whether a 1939-D nickel is a MS-65.8 or 65.9, and you guys are spending three weeks trying to take crud off a 2,300-year-old chunk of bronze.

Bravo!

 

Three weeks?!?! That's only if we're super lucky!!

Try 6 MONTHS!

 

Anacs called this corroded, but I didn't care:

 

Mike,

I know you would like to participate in this thread, but I think I speak for everyone when I say that the coin shown above does not qualify as a dog. Face facts my friend, all your coins are beautiful.

Paul

 

I agree!! That's a beauty!!

 

Here comes my dog. It is a 1956 Roosevelt Dime NGC MS67. That's right, I said MS67. If anyone can find an uglier MS67 of any type or denomination, I will renounce this coin's dog status. Until then, wuf wuf!




:smile

 

ew...

lol, that's one ugly 67!

 

Yeah,

You know how sometimes a high grade coin looks much better in hand than in a photo. This one doesn't! When I sell this coin, I am going to affix a sticker with POS on it and claim that it is very rare.

 

These aren't purty, but I got them in change in the last couple of years, so no complaints:



Got the Buff nickel in change at a Sears store ca. 2006-7.




Lots of things look like hell when they are 80 years old. I got this in change in a hospital cafeteria last year, it is dated 1928.