Found this in a Roll

Look though a roll from the Mint found this.

 

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Damage. Took a hit.

 

Got in a fight with another coin's reeding.

 

As @furryfrog02 says.

 

worms

 

Looks like the coin that hit it had a knife attached. It's damaged.

 

Here is one more image. 30 coins from the current mint roll I'm looking through have these marks. But I've seen this frequently in may other rolls I purchased directly from the mint. All are about the same size, same shape are normally 3 but sometimes only two. Any idea what causes these?

 

Sure it's damage. But too deep to be contact marks.

 

I already told you what they are...contact marks from another coin's reeding...

 

False.

 

You will find a lot of these contact marks as you go along. From the time they are made and dumped into a bin to dumped into bags and them rolled. Also from hitting each other when a roll is cracked against a cashiers drawer. Coins just hitting other coins on a regular basis.

 

If you are convinced this is something else, you might want to take them to a dealer for verification. But here, any other answer would be a lie and we tend to frown on that.

 

Nope. Definitely a contact mark.

 

Sure enough you did. Missed it ...saw "worms" and knief.

 

contact marks from being bagged.

directly after the minting stage coins, including quarters, fall into a "ballistic bag"
the coins hit each other. they are not individually cushioned in separate flips or anything. So they hit each other, stack up like crazy. The edge of the quarters can hit the other one.

This excludes future process bagging into (rolls) or small bags (and going through processing equipment), future cycling from Loomis/Brinks to further baggings, etc.

A Quarter ballistic bag contains $80,000 of quarters


and many of them have identical contact marks.
take a quarter and see how it kinda fits in the contact mark as an example.

btw, I'm not 100% sure but I'm pretty sure the US MINT does not create the individual rolls. They are processed offsite by a vendor into rolls. The US MINT went to bags only years ago for distribution from the Mint facilities, per their documentation.

So there's another processing step for the coins to get damaged.

 

btw, if you become an approved vendor you can buy a ballistic bag yourself.
Just for $51,500 ... you'll have to pick it up though. might not fit in a cars trunk either.

Then Roll them all yourself !!

 

It's damaged from other quarters hitting up against it.

 

That was worth reading!!! Thanks. Interesting that an outside vender does the roll creations. I'm guessing the do the 'sewn mint mini bags' as well?

The more I learn about the entire process the more I can see how some of these things happen.

Tim

 

It's all good that you are learning. But what I see is Deny Deny Deny, the truth.
Until it is made evident. Why not trust the info you were given on the first response. You came here with a question that you obviously didn't know, and were given the truth.

I guess that being slapped in the face with the answer is what you needed?

 

Amazing how that doesn't even work a lot of the time...