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Expert: - 8/22/2008


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Here is a photo of the coin, as well as I could get:

http://i35.tinypic.com/30w56k1.jpg

My guess is that the cheap metal corroded or something, but it's so deep. You can actually get a couple of finger nails in there (as I tried). I thought perhaps a prankster had somehow separated a coin and then glued it back together.

I tried weighing the coin, but my scale is for cooking and wavered between 5 and 6 grams.

Any info would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

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Hi Zeek,

I have seen this before on several coins.  I don't know exactly how or why it's done, but somebody manually altered your coin.  I don't think it was chemically done -- more likely by a machine of some type.

Considered altered or damaged, it has no collector value.

Dan

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