Terminology: Post-Strike Vs Post Mint Damage

Nolt sure about that Lincoln Cent. Sure looks like something the Mint would send out.

Your picture of the 5 rupee coin is NOT post strike damage. That occured DURING the strike and would be considered to be a mint error.



The problem with those definitions is that if the coin was damaged after it was struck, how do you determine if the damage occurred before or after it left the mint building? You can't, so it is rather meaningless. Another problem with Post Mint Damage is that it comes from lazy people. The term was originally Post Minting Damage meaning after the coin was minted not after it left the building. When people shortened Minting to Mint it changed the meaning.

This is why the term should be PSD Post Strike Damage. Anything that happens to the coin after the moment of strike, no matter where the coin is at the time, is Post Strike Damage PSD.

The term PMD should be phased out in favor of PSD. Continued use of the term PMD just leads to confusion for newbies.

I used to use the term Post Mint Damage, but when I heard that Post Strike Damage is the proper term, I started to use that instead all of the time. I can thank Coop for that lesson.

Fair points.

You may have noticed that PMD and PSD are in the CCF glossary, but only PMD automatically links to it whenever you type it. PSD does not, so I will see if I can get that changed.

In my opinion this is really all an insignificant semantics argument, both terms imply pretty much the same thing and if someone has a preference for one over the other it really shouldnt matter.

When I type or read PSD or PMD, the same thought comes into my mind: Damage, not an error.

When someone says that a coin that's been heavily damaged is a "parking lot coin", can you really prove that the damage came from a parking lot? not really. Does it matter? not really. It carries the same meaning as someone calling it "damaged"

If someone had called it PMD would you really be unable to discern the meaning behind what was said?

In the few cases like this, you could qualify that the mint themselves caused this damage after the coin was struck, but in the vast majority of damaged coin situations, it really doesn't make a difference

Theres definitely an interesting discussion to be had when it comes down to classifying whether something is a mint error or mint cause PSD or how far along the minting process something is considered struck.

However in practical application on this forum, I really do not believe its necessary to try and language police people on their terms when in nearly every single case the two terms carry the same meaning and intent(and can be interpreted as such). And in cases where it cant, it can always be qualified and expanded upon(which it usually is anyway).