🔎 UNIDENTIFIED I found this when I received change back - a small dime

[Mdpartner]

I am terribly sorry for the blurry picture. It was in a restaurant with dark lighting and my phone camera sucked. I was going to take a better photo when I got home but as the diminished dime was attracting a lot of attention, I was offered and accepted $20 for the dime.

I can tell as a connoisseur of coins, it did not have any markings on it that would identify it as a fake or a copy. It had a copper core as all clad dimes do. I cannot remember the date or mint mark. It looked like it was either cut down to size or shaved BUT, it still had the knurled edge like all dimes. Also, to my calibrated eyeball, the head of FDR is the same size as the "good" dime.

Suggestions? Reactions? Obfuscations? Estimations? Postulations? Speculations? Suppositions? Circumcisions? Conclusions? Theorizations?

 

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[l.cutler]

Impossible to say for sure with the blurry pictures. Some possibilities are, a coin that has been in an acidic environment, deliberately filed or ground down, or could be a fake coin. If it still has the reeded edge though there is no way it could be any kind of mint error. Modern coins are struck in a closed collar which impresses the reeding, if it was smaller it would not reach the collar so it wouldn't have any reeds.

 

[ARC]

Impossible to say for sure with the blurry pictures. Some possibilities are, a coin that has been in an acidic environment, deliberately filed or ground down, or could be a fake coin. If it still has the reeded edge though there is no way it could be any kind of mint error. Modern coins are struck in a closed collar which impresses the reeding, if it was smaller it would not reach the collar so it wouldn't have any reeds.

I will add the other possibility of a "wrong planchet".

 

[Gare]

I will add the other possibility of a "wrong planchet".

GOOD CALL ARC

 

[cudamark]

What planchet is smaller than a dime?

 

[cudamark]

Who's paying $20 ea. for them? I have dozens of dimes like that from years of being in the surf.

 

[unclemac]

or washing machine damage

 

[ARC]

What planchet is smaller than a dime?

Something Foreign... possibly ?
We do after all mint for other countries... err or at least we use to mint for others last time i checked.
And...
It would not be the first time i have seen it... just not in this case.

 

[ticndig]

or washing machine damage

I think you nailed this one , it shrunk in the wash

 

[unclemac]

like this one

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