I posted a thread yesterday with this dime 2012d found in an OBW roll. Every dime in the roll was a 2012d but this one has something going on with the Obverse it has no shine at all. I did get some feed back that it might have been chemically stripped of the plating, but I did open the roll myself and the reverse side is normal. I want make a habit of reposting coins fishing for comments but I am curious about this one. Thanks Any help with this would be appreciated even if it is post mint I would like to know how it could have been in with a roll of 2012d dimes that was in a box of 2012d dimes.
Environmental damage. How? No one can know. Perhaps you are mistaken about what OBW means. Those rolls are not from the mint.
Yes sir I know Loomis gets dimes in bags from Fed and wraps them for their customers, but I just couldn't see how 1 dime with damage got mixed in with a whole box of 2012d dimes. There just wasn't any logic in it to me. I will admit I'm not an expert but it would seem that that particular coin would have almost had to be placed there intentionally like the wheat rolls on Ebay with silver dimes or civil war tokens on the end, and I just couldn't see how that was possible or probable. Thanks I respect your opinion as well as the others yesterday you have some very good post.
I do not know about Loomis specifically, but most of the coin suppliers for banks , also separates, counts, and re-rolls the large bags of loose coins from their member banks. So the large bag of new dimes from the mint may get mixed with a few left overs, but the best bet might be that the specific dime was at the bottom of the bag , obverse touching the bag material and environmental factors reacted with it.
No sir the coin was in the middle of the roll. The roll was tight and no appearance of having been tampered with. I see between $250 and $500 worth of dimes a day so anything different pops out. That being said I find about 1 1/2 silver dimes a month you would think it would be more.
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Thanks for that reply sir I haven't collected mint or proof sets in over 25 years so I haven't even seen a satin finish coin until you mentioned it in your post. I went to Google then it took me to Ebay for images and from the pictures I saw there that is exactly what my coin looks except for the reverse which is normal. I see that D mint coins are made in Satin finish but what would be the odds of having one that is Satin on one side and normal on the reverse? Could it even be possible? I don't know enough about the minting process to even speculate. Thanks
Are the satin finish dies prepared differently, like proof dies? If so, I guess it could be possible that a satin obverse die was paired with a regular business reverse. I think it would be very rare though. The main question is if the dies are prepared differently.
