I found this yesterday....

[distelrath]

? Hello folks check out the crazy coin I found yesterday at my neighbors house.? It is a? 1914 barber dime that somebody took the time to punch a face out of.? I was very surprised to find it.? Any ideas on value I have no clue.

? Take Care and HH!
Ryan

 

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[strawbfan]

wow that is different

 

[bergie]

If you look carefully on the back, there are two sets of what look to be solder marks at the 3 and 9 clock positions that indicate this may have been made into a ring at one point and the "ring part" came off. Either that or it was attached to something else at those two points.

 

[distelrath]

Thank you everybody for your input. I was hoping I found a "once in a lifetime" treasure but hey it is still cool. I figured somebody used wooden tools to punch the face through but a press does seem to be more feasible. Hey... wasn't altering coinage illegal back then?

Thanks for the help!
Ryan

 

[lab rat]

Beautiful find-- Congratulations!

Altering coinage has never been illegal in the U.S. What is illegal is removing metal to diminish its value and then passing it as full value, or producing a facsimile and passing it as the real thing. But then, Congress did that when in 1965 they replaced silver coinage with the clad we use today.