194x S with diamond cutouts

[Scott99]

Thanks everyone for solving my mystery today, vice job it is. Will... I saw the upside down duck LOL... cute and Maineman and I looked at some neat love tokens. I did read the article Scott posted about cancelled coins, and the design image is very similar but normally just in the center of the coin. As this coin falls, it's PSD.

Next post.. lol

[Maineman750]

Not quite, here is the article from CoinWorld and the site I was referring to. Damage and vice with no doubt though. lol

Thanks for the article....but it is listed as a waffled coin....just wondering what you mean by "not quite" ?

[Scott99]

Thanks for the article....but it is listed as a waffled coin....just wondering what you mean by "not quite" ?

"Diamond-Shaped Indention" is what Mike referred to them as.

Also, I see what you mean VAB, the article did say that the planchets were done before being struck with dies so therefore the diamonds on the rim and whatnot would be after the planchet was stuck rather than before like the ones that came from the mint.

[Maineman750]

"Diamond-Shaped Indention" is what Mike referred to them as.
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Which is what waffling produces, is it not ?

[coop]

[GrumpyEd]

Waffled coins have a big pattern:

Waffled on ebay

[Maineman750]

Waffled coins have a big pattern:

Waffled on ebay

It took about 4 rereads of the CoinWorld article, but I finally figured out that the coin was waffled by the India government....not ours.

[jcuve]

The danger to Mike's article is that it ends up showing an extremely exotic error coin that just so happens to look like something that is somewhat commonly found, a coin that made contact with vice grips under pressure. He wisely shows a damaged coin in the article. But you know how everyone wants to find the cash coin and won't believe their coin was damaged. Another example would be off-metal errors and how plated or painted coins can mimic the look and then fool collectors into believing what they found is an valuable exotic error coin.

[trails]

The coin involved in this thread was put in a vise to make that pattern. I have one in my collection of oddities. We also list this in error-ref.com.

https://www.error-ref.com/garage-job-or-squeeze-job.html

[VAB2013]

Thank you Mr. Neff, I just saw the one listed on your website and it is the same. Kinda reminds me of my grandmother's apple pie