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I got it at the bank today as well as 4 silver dimes, decent find. It looks like the rim of a coin imprinted. It dosnt look like any damage that iv seen without damaging any more of the coin. Opinions are appreciated  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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It looks like it happened after striking, not sure if a coin strike in the bag would do that much damage, so I would assume PMD. If the mark was before the strike a different story. |
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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That is damage from the rim of another coin coming in contact with it.
Not uncommon when you consider they are shipped loose in bags.
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Pillar of the Community
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Wow suprising that a coin could do that much damage, it's not scratched, I imagine it would take like 200Lb or more to indent the coin so deep and so perfectly. Iv seen coins that were stabbed by screw drivers and it wasn't that deep. Also if it was from another coin wouldn't it have most likely scratched the coin as well, if there is enough psi for a coin to dig that deep into another there should be more damage to the coin around the area. I'm not sure how it could be done just be being carried with other coins in a bag
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It looks like the serrations from another coin did it, PMD. |
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Yes, I'm thinking the feature was caused by end-on contact with the reeded edge of another coin. Blunt force contact vs. a simple roll-over.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I still don't get how another coin could do it. I don't think I'd see such perfect deep serration imprints if I took another coin and smashed it's edge onto another coin using a hammer. If you all say it's PMD I believe you, just don't get how one coin could do this without leaving scratched or anything else. Like it's imprinted into steel |
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The coins are struck by high speed presses and the coins fall into a a large skid skid size bin, then they are riddle and scanned before wrapping, it" a long fall for the first struck coins
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Canada
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A coin caninly gain so much speed falling, like the debunking of a pennie being able to kill someone if dropped from the CN tower. The idea that a coin could deal such a perfect imprent like this so deep into steel is un likely. Though idk I know more about basic physics then coins lol, that's the only reason it's confusing to me.
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Pillar of the Community
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seems awful long to be a reeded edge hit?
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It's not exactly a "steel" coin. It a steel core with a layer of nickel, then layer of copper and then nickel again. Just think how much a mint/bank bag of quarters weighs (maybe 20 lbs). And bags are chucked on top of each other from a distance if they are going to be rolled somewhere. You could easily have rim serrations make a mark like that. And who knows if it wasn't just a kid with a hammer. It's PMD no matter what. |
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I'll hold onto it, as the other guy said it's fairly long so the coin would have had to roll, or something to make the mark this long while not doing any other damage to the coin. It's the lack of any other damage that I don't get and the size. A kid with a hammer, idk what he would have used, it's perfectly even spacing and not damage around the deep dents. They seem almost evenly as deep and to the end it gets smaller, so mayb a coin roll with mass amounts of pressure?
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There was over 200 million of the RCM symbol quarters produced in 07, they are generally not handled with all care like the Ottawa mint, when needed they are taken from the storage part of the Winnipeg mint, bumpy ride by forklift to be sorted for final distribution. Marks are bound to occur to a few coins, Winnipeg plant is huge, like 20 acres or so. |
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Canada
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The coin is in circulated state so there is gasilion ways it could of been done. My opinion, PMD.  |
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Canada
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True but I'm good with numbers this kind of strike does not make sense to me as damage or an error the amount of pressure without leaving other marks on the coin are very slim, if it was just another coin. It seems very precise. The odds it is a minting error is just as low tho, it's just the size of it and the psi it wouldn't take and the odds of it being circulation damage are all low. But ya all in all idk that's why I post.
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Also sorry for the bad Grammer, I'm on my phone and had a few drinks lol. But anyways point is I still don't see how this could have been done.
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Posted 06/29/2021 5:17 pm
