Dots On $2 Coin

I don't hit people! Everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

From my experience these dots are always 'innies', and I believe they are caused by impact with maybe part of the collar, or something that is related to the interrupted reeding.

I also believe that this impact happens at some stage of the minting process. It only ever occurs on the rim of the coin, if it was just general 'impact', it would occur anywhere on the coins surface. Also look at the picture on P1, the indentations are lined up very neatly along the outside edge of the rim, how likely is that general impact is always going to be this neat?

There are usually five of them (which is the number of grooves in the reeding), and as concerned said in his 1st post, they aren't necessarily in line with the reeding on the coin, but their existence is definitely connected to the reeding. I firmly believe that it's not PMD. JMHO.

I used to keep them all, but I culled them so I'm not sure that I kept any. I'll have to check. If I find any, I'll post some more images, but don't hold your breath waiting for them.

Looks to me like milling of the side of the coin,not an error whatsoever

Are you thinking Partial Collar Goatie ? Tilted Collar ?

It would appear to be a [partial] re-strike making contact with the collar.

Just went through a few $2 coins (about $800 )and this is what I found.
Some were related to off centre strikes. Looks like they appear mainly on 1999 and 2009 at the 7:00 o'clock position with 5 dots on the reverse side but does appear on other years in reverse and obverse locations with varying number of dots.



year side dots position (clock)
1999 rev 5 7:00
2009 rev 5 7:00
2009 rev 8 7:00
2000 obv 5 2:00
1998 rev 6 6:00
1999 rev 5 7:00
2007 rev 5 6:00
2009 rev 3 6:30
1997 obv 5 7:00