Your ugly and most damaged coins you keep and why

Here are two of mine


got it as changes oldest coin I got in change



first African coin I got back in the 1970s

yours daryl

Oooo...I've got some goodies for this thread.  Gonna have to pull that camera out and start snapping some pictures this weekend  I love me my uglies!

Quote: ALLRED1950Here are two of mine


got it as changes oldest coin I got in change



first African coin I got back in the 1970s

yours daryl

Wow, I have a few liberty nickels that look like yours.   .

My ugly and most very seriously damaged coin is the One my Grandfather carried with him to invade the Soviet Union ambitiously in 1943 (not his own will, you would bet!)
It was this type: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces17790.html A 1939 silver 5 Pengő

He was carrying it in his trouser's pockets, hoping it will bring him good luck.
It eventually did.
In November 1944, he got several Soviet bullets in his right leg, somewhere what is Ukraine now, and the coin has been receiving a portion of it - maybe (but not provenly) contributing to the fact that he recovered later.
Well, he has always been limping a bit till he passed away in 1984

Now, your question is why do I keep it in my collection? ... hmmm

So bullet damage? Can we see a photo?

Quote: manxcat12So bullet damage? Can we see a photo?

I was about to put it in the original message: NO PHOTO! currently, my father keeps it, and I do not want to disturb him with photo bull****.
However, I can track some bulleted coins for you, I just swapped and sent some to Portugal and Canada... WW2 damage ... on the swap... or maybe not ... Anyway, I don't think it is so funny anymore

I somehow feel bad throwing away coins even if they are badly damaged. I have kept a bunch of them in a box.

sujit_kumar - I am the same way. I keep mine in a canning jar here another

 makes you think did it get damaged in WWII

A load of holed and bent UK silver from bulk lots. Keeping it to either sell when the price is higher, or to attempt to protect my collection in a full global collapse of fiat currency. Sounds silly when I put it like that.

I can't get a pic of it right now, but I will try to later.
I've got a Phillipines one centavo, probably from the 1920's.  All that is visible is the man on the reverse and about 1/2 of the shield on the obverse.  
I've also got a King George IV half-penny from the UK that is worse than the centavo.  All you can see is the King's nose and the outline of Britannia.  
I guess I keep these because I don't like getting rid of coins, especially if they are older than me.

This one, the coin in the photo, is my coin, I turned it down for more valuable coins because I like the history. Why would I do that?

 https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces19958.html

I think of its history and how it got this way and it opens up so many possibilities. Let's just hope It was buried on some bloody battlefield for almost 100 years instead of sitting in someone's attic.

Found this US Dime in a parking lot.  Wonder how many times it got run over?



I have no idea why I've kept it.  Pool li'l guy!

I have a dime like that one.

  I still have this coin I found in pocket change in June last year (so a few months after it was issued); I kept it and saw it again in one of my bags a few weeks ago and luckily it has not got any worse.
 Looks like these steel-centred coins may be rubbish.
  


  So a knock on the edge lets in water, thus causing rust. Eventually I can foresee people getting cut on the sharp edges, and getting infections ...
  Actually, it occurs to me that then the whole coin could rust away, so I would have lost five pence.  
 
P.S. Shame for the next generation of metal-detectorists also.

Quote: ZacUKP.S. Shame for the next generation of metal-detectorists also.

I found a 1940s nickel-plated steel coin with the metal detector and it was a bit damaged.

The edges were rusted, but it seems that water couldn't get inside to do any further damage.

  That 5 pence I mentioned nearly a year ago has not got any worse, so far.
Yesterday I got in change this sad 20 Pence - looks like everything has happened to it but getting holed ...

 1982 is first year of issue, 32 years ago. I will give it a good home and keep it with the 5 Pence.

Quote: Diego KnyteFound this US Dime in a parking lot.  Wonder how many times it got run over?



I have no idea why I've kept it.  Pool li'l guy!

Is it silver?

My darkest and most broken coin  

(black with shame of having been broken ?)

Absolutly unthinkable to throw it in the trash

5 Centesimi - Vittorio Emanuele II  (1861-1867) - Bronze