Post Mint Damage

Lawn mower?

Damaged. Spend it.

Not sure, but I found it roll searching.

A bank would probably not even accept it since mutilated coinage is considered to be unfit for circulation, not to mention the fact that the Treasury will not redeem mutilated coins for full value so the bank would lose the face value.

"Those coins are classified either as uncurrent or as mutilated. Coins that are chipped, fused, and not machine-countable are considered mutilated. The Mint redeems mutilated coins at the value of their metal content.

Mutilated coins are only redeemable through the United States Mint at:
United States Mint
P.O. Box 400
Philadelphia, PA 19105
(215) 408-0203

Uncurrent coins are worn, but machine-countable, and their genuineness and denomination are still recognizable. Uncurrent coins are replaced with new coins of the same denomination by the Federal Reserve Banks, then forwarded to the United States Mint. All uncurrent or mutilated coins received by the Mint are melted, and the metal is shipped to a fabricator to be recycled in the manufacture of coinage strips."

http://www.treas.gov/education/faq/...les.shtml#q4

This is misleading. Yes they redeem them based on the value of their metal content, but under the full law as it is written they use that metal content to determine what that represented as FACE value and that is the value redeemed. A pound of CuNi clad identifiable as US coinage would get you $20 even though the market value of the metal is nowhere near that. Coins have to be separated by denomination and in at least one pound lots. Copper cents will be redeemed at a rate of $1.46 per pound, five cent pieces at $4.54 per pound, dimes quarters and halves at $20 per pound , and SBA's at $56 per pound. At least that was the way the law was written in 1999.

Tresury Regulations Subpart C Section 100.11 b