Why So Much REV Die Damage On 2015 - 2018 P Roosevelt Dimes ?

I think I might know why maybe. That area is one of the stress points of the die that can easily crack or chip. On the die, that area in incused, while the fields with no details are not.

Hey Coop, you would think after 250 years of minting coins they would have it down by now. I think the problem is deeper, I think it comes down to efforts to cut the cost of minting coins, and the end product suffers tremendously from it. I'm seriously beginning to think they outsource the minting of coins to China. I have never seen so many variations of quality, clarity of text, and light strikes, vs heavy strikes.
Like I mentioned in a thread I started earlier, If it's dated 1983 or sooner I toss it aside. The quality is seriously very poor.
Why didn't they simply cut the amount of copper in the coins and add another cheaper metal to make up for it ?

Dan

You have to figure in also, they are not making one die at a time. Hundreds of dies are made at the same time. So the more made at the same time may have different things happen to them during the process. So not tempered the same. In the video, you see that a hands on treatment was necessary. Those dies may have been given a group hug instead of individual attention. Thus some are know to react differently. 2015, 2016 dimes are posted here probably most often with an issue of the dies breaking down quickly or just being over used.

That's called a Die Crack. This issue was very common on these newer Dimes.