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1997 Ring Around The Obverse

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 Posted 06/20/2007  6:16 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add jgmick to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Here is a coin found in my pocket change that has a perfectly formed ring around the perimeter of the obverse.

I have never seen an error coin with such a marking and wondered if it was post mintage or a possible minting error?

Either way, I post the image to ask?

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 Posted 06/20/2007  6:51 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add garylcsr to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
that looks like the rolling machine got it.
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 Posted 06/20/2007  9:08 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jgmick to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Makes cents to me :)

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Either rolling machine or counting machine damage
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It almost looks as if the mark is raised above the surface of the coin. If that's the case it might be some sort of die gouge.
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Rolling and counting machines are generally one in the same. The counting machine drops the coins into an open end of a "shotgun shell" type wrapper. It has a spinning wheel - hole on the front that you stick the open end of the roll into when the counter finishes filling the roll. This wheel/hole thing crimps the open end of the paper, rolling it inward onto itself. Because the wheel is metal and is spinning, placing too much pressure on the wheel with the roll will scratch the coin on the end of the roll in a circular pattern. With enough pressure one can completely obliterate design features on the end-roll coin.
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