For the people who hate coin markers......

[bigtime400]

You are going to love this. Over the last few weeks I have found hundreds of 2007 P and D with holes drilled in Kennedys head. one of them had a stamp mark that says "ana milw. 2007" Its one thing to mark the coins with a marker but to destroy a ton of nice looking 2007s is just wrong... it kinda pisses me off. not to mention the effort that went into drilling all of them..... I mean... why bother!? whats the point?? Anyone know where these are coming from so I can go flatten their tires?

 

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[TxTim]

Whoa!
That is crazy!!!
Beyond words.
We have to look into this mystery....

 

[Siegfried Schlagrule]

Keep the ANA one it is a counterstamped coin that is a souvenir of the 2007 ANA convention in Milwaukee. the others may be for the same event and not used. Determine this by comparing the holes on both types. siegfried schlagrule

 

[Scott (Mich)]

It may be that someone was trying to make and sell a bunch of necklaces.

I often come across holed coins while md-ing and I have read in the olden days (1800's) some people used to drill their coins so they could put them on a string and then have a better chance of not losing them. The Chinese did it quite a bit - that is one of the reasons many Chinese coins have a center hole. But as for these NIFC's being that way, that is plain silly to hole them.

Happy Hunting,

Scott (MI)

 

[coinmojo]

Seems somewhat ominous with all these JFK's with holes in the head.

Mojo

 

[bigtime400]

I thought the ANA in Milwaukee too at first but then again I didn't think they would do something like that. And the stamp is very sloppy.... I have seen better ones on pennies and such. I have never come across any halves 2002 up with holes except for these. Funny that Im finding alot of them dont you think?

 

[packerbacker]

What's ANA stand for? We have way too many silly organizations around here; can't keep track anymore.

 

[Fropa]

American Numismatic Association. It's one of the biggest coin collector organizations. They have a big convention every year in a different city. I joined this year and get their monthly magazine, The Numismatist.

 

[packerbacker]

Thanks Fropa. I can't imagine a serious member of that organization punching holes in coins or stamping them for that matter.

 

[scrounger d detector collector]

my guess is someones crude attempt to make ana souvenirs.probly got caught trying to sell unauthorized product and had to dump. REAL ANA would be beautiful and pro struck

 

[JR_Jewelry691]

I was at the event and yes their 100% Ana stamped coins...they shouldn't have a hole in them though so that's new and I never seen that but if it just has the stamp your good to go...not saying it's worth anything but if it's stamped and not holed as well those I know are legit...I still have mine from the event. And it doesn't matter who does the stamp lmfao...a stamp is a stamp, it wouldn't look any better no matter who did it.

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

Has it become legal to mutilate coins?

 

[MalteseFalcon]

It has never been illegal to mutilate coins just to mutilate them. You can stamp them, you can drill holes in them, cut pieces out of them with a jigsaw, even put them on train tracks to be run over and flattened by a 200-ton locomotive.

Same thing with dollar bills. You can draw on them, write on them, etc.

It is all about intent.

Drawing on or mutilating coins or bills with intent to deceive is against the law.

I keep a 2-dollar bill in my pocket with all my other bills.
I drew some sunglasses on Thomas Jefferson.
It is for security purposes. If I ever get robbed, and police nab the suspect, I can
tell them to check for a 2-dollar-bill with sunglasses on Jefferson.
Perfectly legal because I am not giving Mr. Thomas cool shades to try to deceive anyone into thinking
it is a $20 bill.


Interesting about the ANA coins.
I learn something new every day!

 

[detectorcowboy]

You are going to love this. Over the last few weeks I have found hundreds of 2007 P and D with holes drilled in Kennedys head. one of them had a stamp mark that says "ana milw. 2007" Its one thing to mark the coins with a marker but to destroy a ton of nice looking 2007s is just wrong... it kinda pisses me off. not to mention the effort that went into drilling all of them..... I mean... why bother!? whats the point?? Anyone know where these are coming from so I can go flatten their tires?

Don't worry about it some people are just stupid.

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

It has never been illegal to mutilate coins just to mutilate them. You can stamp them, you can drill holes in them, cut pieces out of them with a jigsaw, even put them on train tracks to be run over and flattened by a 200-ton locomotive.

Same thing with dollar bills. You can draw on them, write on them, etc.

It is all about intent.

Drawing on or mutilating coins or bills with intent to deceive is against the law.

I keep a 2-dollar bill in my pocket with all my other bills.
I drew some sunglasses on Thomas Jefferson.
It is for security purposes. If I ever get robbed, and police nab the suspect, I can
tell them to check for a 2-dollar-bill with sunglasses on Jefferson.
Perfectly legal because I am not giving Mr. Thomas cool shades to try to deceive anyone into thinking
it is a $20 bill.


Interesting about the ANA coins.
I learn something new every day!

The glasses could be coincidental. Knowing the serial number of some bills would be better, and traceable in the financial system.