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Back in the early 1960s I was searching through a LOT of coins every day in my Dad's store. There were still a lot of Mercury dimes in circulation. I would frequently find Mercs with a "C-shaped cut" on the coin...on the obverse it would be on Liberty's face....sometimes a deep cut, sometimes shallow...always "arc-shaped". I was told by a dealer at that time, that it was caused by the coin rolling machines that closed "shotgun" rolls. I never thought much of it, because common Mercs then were only worth face value. But it really annoyed me once because I found a REALLY NICE 1921 Merc (F-VF)with that darn cut in it! Just wondered if ya'll remember finding those. Steve
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That is true the older coin roller did grind up some coins
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If you look on some BU rolls on Lincoln cents, you can see that the copper layer is scraped off, and the zinc core is showing. I think that the shotgun rollers still do this to coins but its not as bad as before.
-Ben
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Ya I remember seeing those and still do see a few that have that damage,, most banks back then rolled alot of their own coins ,, and not all the machines or operators of them were created equally.
what ever coin ended up on the end of the rolls had the potential to be damaged.
I do see similar damage on some of todays rolled coins but not as frequently .
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There was a small dime bank used back in the 50's that would cause the same thing. I have found one at an antigue shop and tried it. This is a Barber dime that I purchased simply because of the ring.  Here is what the bank looks like:  Is this what your talking about? Edited by Jamez
12/04/2007 8:22 pm
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Jamez, Yep! Looks like that, only on the coins I found it was never a complete circle...usually just half a circle....but that's the right size and in the right place. A puzzling element of that was, I never saw that damage on Roosevelt dimes...only Mercs. Only explanation I could think of is that whatever caused it was no longer in use by 1946. Steve Edited by Firecom911
12/04/2007 8:48 pm
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Steve:
Yup, I agree, it seems that those marks are only on the earlier coins.
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Haven't seen that on coins for a long time. For some reason used to be common on dimes but never saw it on a quarter.
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Carl:
I agree, only on the dimes.
Perhaps they used a different system for quarters and other coins.
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If you look closely at that Barber dime, there's actually TWO cuts...each a half circle. Those half-circles are exactly the damage I was seeing back then. If that was coin roller damage, it should have shown up on other denominations of coins. That little dime bank that Jamez illustrated has a slot screw in the top that you turn down to keep the dimes from falling out. I remember those little banks. I'd bet good money that those little banks were REAL popular at sometime during the coining span of Mercury dimes. Steve |
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