Never heard of "webbing". Didn't think anything like this left the mint. http://www.ebay.com/itm/SCRAP-US-Ni..._Individual&hash=item1c250d2d9d#ht_500wt_1054
Real yes legal to own well..hmm maybe; maybe not. Maybe the work of a sticky fingered former mint employee or a hoax type thing made in a basement. According to fleur-de-coin they say that the "webbing" (unusable planchets as well) are to be collected via screen and melted in furnaces into bars to be recycled back into strips to make planchets. http://www.fleur-de-coin.com/articles/coinblanks.asp
Wonder if you can get side view pics, since all appear to be nickel, the dime and quarter should have a copper layer.
Yes, this is real and it does leave the mint. Not in rolls or such but in equipment that is sent out to be cleaned or repaired. A friend of mine worked for a company that serviced fork lifts that were used at the mint. Inside of the fork lift he regularly found blank planchets, webbing, and small trimmings of the metals. Unfortunately, since at that time he wasn't a collector, he never kept any of it. He's kicking himself now.
Webbing is the strip after the blanks are punched out. After the webbing is chopped to pieces it is called scissel. Is it legal to own? Sure. Once the Mint sells the webbing, scissel, and waffled coins, blanks, and planchets either back to the strip producers or metal recyclers they can do whatever they want to with it. Once they sell it it's just so much scrap metal.
Thanks to everyone for their help. I noticed it says in the description: "Grading is subjective so please see photos & grade for your self." Hmm...I wonder if NGC would slab these?
It also says that the coins are just for sizing... How does one grade a blank, much less a holed up piece of metal?
