Help!! This 1966 is all wrong!!

[Swade2K]

So I pull this from a Brinks box and first thing I notice is that this beautiful 66 Kennedy doesn't sound right upon clanking. It sounds like a magician coin but doesn't have a seam on the reverse. I give it to my fiancé and she takes a knife to the edge and pulls back the silver clad like tin foil... What The Flippy Cup!!! It looks all weird under the clad too.



What's the deal on this thing?

 

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[Swade2K]

 

[red89]

Lamination error maybe?

 

[Swade2K]

 

[Swade2K]

Crap, if it was an error I think I just destroyed the coin lol

 

[Nickel Searcher 219]

Seems like someone just put some kinda tinfoil cover on it,almost like a sticker...

 

[jkng]

Cool fish. Haha probably an error.

 

[Diver_Down]

Looks like a lamination error to me. Congrats on destroying it by letting your lady take a knife to it. Perhaps ask next time before carving up the silver?

 

[red89]

does the date still read 1966 under the "foil" part? If so then it is a lamination error.

 

[hotrod]

fake silver?

 

[PhattyB]

Keep knifing at it, you'll get to the chocolate center eventually!

 

[GlenDronach]

smh...

Silver hunters damaging error coins with more value than the silver content.

 

[MrSchulz]

Nice job destroying a piece of history that you could of gotten more money for than just silver scrap

 

[jrf30]

tough room.

I say take it to a LCS and see what he says first. It could be something on top of the coin, and not part of it at all. It could be an error. It could be ... too manythings to know for sure until someone looks at it. Bummer if it is an error, but take it in first.

 

[Diver_Down]

All isn't lost. Hopefully the carving didn't continue, and there are no obvious gouges from the knife. It still can be salvaged and hopefully attributed as such an error. Take a look at a graded lamination error on David Lawrence's site. 1967 Kennedy Half Dollar 50c NGC MS64 - Obverse Lamination | Buy & Sell Certified Rare Coins | Coin Values | David Lawrence Rare Coins Dealer

 

[bigscores]

There's ways to tell if a planchet split naturally or if it was "helped".

That was probably a $100 error prior to it being "helped" along.

 

[Wilmingtonsilver]

You might want to open negotiations with your fiance' on what she is willing to do to make up for the $100+ of damage she did to that coin.

 

[rocky raccoon]

easy...........

 

[ImpurestStewart]

Guess I'm a moron too, I got one like this quite along time ago. It isn't fake. But I thought it was. I broke the plate off it. Still have it even though I sold all my other silver. Give the guy a break, How was he supposed to know? I remember when this room(and the people in it) were gracious and helpful. Not hateful and spiteful like this. You wonder why most of the old regulars stop posting here. Get over yourselves.

 

[bigscores]

Guess I'm a moron too, I got one like this quite along time ago. It isn't fake. But I thought it was. I broke the plate off it. Still have it even though I sold all my other silver. Give the guy a break, How was he supposed to know? I remember when this room(and the people in it) were gracious and helpful. Not hateful and spiteful like this. You wonder why most of the old regulars stop posting here. Get over yourselves.

Any time you find something unusual about a coin and you don't know what's going on, you should probably do some research before screwing with it. I think that's pretty much good, standard, across-the-board advice that applies for lots of things, not just coins.

Not my $100 that was thrown away, and I don't collect errors, so I don't really care, I just find it sad that someone would default to attempting to damage something rather than researching more into it first.

Suffice to say, I think the OP has learned a lesson...