Posted 11/17/2008 10:50 am
Interesting, but I don't think it's a mint error, because as you say, the bottom letters have the scratches over them, so it must have happened post-strike. From what I've seen at the Mint (it's only about six blocks down the highway from me), once the coins are struck, they're bagged or rolled, and there is nothing on the rolling machine that I could see that would cause this kind of damage.
