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Expert: - 7/24/2008


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Hi,
I work at a gas station and recently was given this amongst a lot of change.

obverse: http://i34.tinypic.com/rkx25d.jpg
reverse: http://i34.tinypic.com/34h6pmf.jpg

I can tell that the date says "196". I can nearly make out the last number, and believe it to be a 6 as well. I can make out "GOD" and "UST" from In God We Trust. The coin is slightly larger in diameter than the 2004 dime I have it pictured with.

I have no idea if this is an error, or if someone just flattened a dime (how, I have no idea). It has been bugging me, so any help you can give would be great. thanks.

p.s. sorry for the shoddy pictures.. all I have is a cameraphone

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Chris,

If it's larger in diameter than the 2004, then it has to have been altered after leaving the mint.  When coins are strick at the mint, they are surrounded by a collar that prevents them from spreading out, so that all dimes are the same diameter.

I don't know how it was altered (perhaps in a press), but it has no collector value as such.

I wish I had better news for you.

Dan

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