mutilated: a severely damaged coin.
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Mutilated - A coin that has been damaged to the point where it no longer can be graded.
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mutilated
A term used to describe a coin that has been damaged to the point where it no longer can be graded.
MUTILATED COIN
A coin with holes, cuts, excessive scratches or gouges, etc... That is not intended to be there.
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Coins were legally mutilated for two reasons: 1) coins were cut in half to make change, and 2) merchants sometimes made a test cut on a coin, ...
And we have theitalic;" face="Verdana" advantage, very rare in marble works, rare even in bronze, of examples quite unmutilated and even undefaced by circulation.
`In this year sent the King Henry, before Christmas, from Normandy to England and bade that all the mint-men that were in England should be mutilated in their limbs; that was, ...
Paper money that has been mutilated or partially destroyed may in some cases be redeemable at full face value.
The inscriptions are mutilated into meaningless lines and points, if they are not represented by runes. The language of the Runic inscriptions is naturally enough - Norwegian.
Term used to describe a Spanish colonial 8 reales (or other dollar-sized coin) that had been mutilated by having a circular piece punched out of the centre, leaving a ring-shaped coin. The punched-out piece is often known as a "dump".
This was a devaluation of the holey dollar, necessary to restore parity with the unmutilated coins. Less obviously, it was also a devaluation of the dump.
" The foregoing statute, however, does not prohibit the mutilation of coins if the mutilated coins are not used fraudulently, i.e., with the intention of creating counterfeit coinage.
Coins with chopmarks are worth less than those without. The United States Trade Dollar officially was terminated in 1887 and all, non-mutilated outstanding Trade Dollars were redeemed by the United States Treasury.
This happens when the there is a machine malfunction or the mint employee supervising the striking of coins is distracted. mutilated A term used to describe a coin that has been damaged to the point where it no longer can be graded.
 See also: Coin, Silver, Coinage, Struck, Mint
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