✅ SOLVED Thoughts on the grooved impressions on this coin

[RVRoamer74]

18 blank blank silver Canadian dime. Have research quite a bit and actually no one will ever really be able to tell why this coin looks like this but would like to get a few thoughts if anyone has any ideas, go for it. The grooved impressions next to hole ?

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[Tony in SC]

Looks like it was squeezed in a vise to drill the hole?

 

[RVRoamer74]

Looks like it was squeezed in a vise to drill the hole?

Having been vised and ruining the looks of the coin then I would think it would not have been intended for jewelry rather to be put on a string for safekeeping ?

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[jeff of pa]

Having been vised and ruining the looks of the coin then I would think it would not have been intended for jewelry rather to be put on a string for safekeeping ?

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or they did intend it for jewelry, but didn't think things through fully

an oops $#%@ moment,after removing it from the vice

 

[junkhunt]

Lawn mower.

 

[Tony in SC]

Long ago in some areas, silver was thought to have special powers. I have a half dime with a hole that belonged to my great grandmother. I was told that it was worn to cure high fevers, for babies teething, for good luck etc.

Having been vised and ruining the looks of the coin then I would think it would not have been intended for jewelry rather to be put on a string for safekeeping ?

Thanks !!

 

[RVRoamer74]

Lawn mower.

not typical of marks made by a lawn mower. Imo
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[RVRoamer74]

or they did intend it for jewelry, but didn't think things through fully

an oops $#%@ moment,after removing it from the vice

Yep, a definite possibility.
Thanks !

 

[RVRoamer74]

Long ago in some areas, silver was thought to have special powers. I have a half dime with a hole that belonged to my great grandmother. I was told that it was worn to cure high fevers, for babies teething, for good luck etc.

Have research some and have seen this as being one reason for the hole, but the crimped/ Vice marks are fairly hard to explain. I have noticed while looking closely you can tell on one side of the hole it is a very rough entry as if being tapped by possibly a nail or something. Or maybe not.

 

[Anduril]

Evidence of the stinging bite of inflation. Or currency devaluation. ?

Money just doesn't go as far these days.
A whole dime would be worth fractionally more.

 

[ecmo]

Of the "blank blank" date numbers, the first is a 5.

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[RVRoamer74]

Of the "blank blank" date numbers, the first is a 5.

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Thinking that myself....Thanks !

 

[RVRoamer74]

Evidence of the stinging bite of inflation. Or currency devaluation. ?

Money just doesn't go as far these days.
A whole dime would be worth fractionally more.

Yeah for sure.....back in that time a dime could have been a days wages !

Here is the average hourly wage:

Occupation 1860, 1870, 1880, 1890
blacksmith, 0.178, 0.304, 0.259, 0.271
carpenter, 0.182, 0.410, 0.276, 0.322
machinist 0.158, 0.260, 0.227, 0.243
laborers, 0.098, 0.156, 0.135, 0.151

 

[Muddyhandz]

Looks like 1884 to me. The scratches are probably associated with the making of the hole.
Natives often did this to coins to wear as adornment and the image wasn't important as they just wanted the flash from the silver.

 

[RVRoamer74]

Looks like 1884 to me. The scratches are probably associated with the making of the hole.
Natives often did this to coins to wear as adornment and the image wasn't important as they just wanted the flash from the silver.

That is a interesting fact. You being from the area you may know more on this area's traditions.

Thanks !!

Thanks for all the help.