2021 Type 2 Silver Eagle Rim Damage

Received a Type 2 for my Silver Eagle album and noticed the damaged rim. Anyone else experience this? Is the Mint’s quality assurance program this bad? Or maybe this is a collectible error?

 

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Assuming you're serious, that's the missing reed safety feature they all have. I though this info was well advertised.

 

I did a search for Type 2 Rim and saw nothing. Thank you for the information.

 

You see the same thing on the US Mint site. They describe it.

 

I'm glad you posted it here @Gilbert. I would have seen this when mine arrived and thought the same thing - I didn't read beyond the fact that there was some sort of security feature on the ASE that I didn't pay attention to.

 

Well shut my mouth.......you opened OGP.........oh the sacrilege, the humanity. How could you? How dare you. How could you have otherwise discovered such a feature? The goobers are watching over us and protecting us from the unscrupulous and scurrilous Chinese, who bought off EBAY in hopes of fooling us mere mortal collectors. Crime, oh crime indeed.........

 

Yeah, that edge treatment was someones bright idea to discourage counterfeiting. How? Don't ask me.

 

Obviously no counterfeiters would have seen that missing reed. Gilbert has ruined all of that now.

 

I try.

 

I saw one at a local dealer’s shop a couple of days ago. The “odd reed” is interesting, and I would not have known about it until the dealer pointed to it.

 

Funny thing is, it's written up on the Mint sight as one of the new anti-counterfeit features, so EVERYONE *read counterfeiters* should know about it.

 

I was facetious, but now I'm vaguely curious if the Mint is actually relying on the possibility that counterfeiters would miss the reed security feature...

 

Maybe the missing reed is a long term plan. Maybe next years will be in different location. Counterfeiters would have to change equipment every year for it to be right and May get it wrong in the process of trying to duplicate.

 

Or, just make the coin and take out the appropriate reed.

 

@micbraun
I always open the capsule to take my photos.

 

Good to know. But you should have quoted @green18 not me :-D

 

I do too........sometimes.

 

@micbraun
Sorry about that

 

That's extra work and may be easier said than done. Assuming you could get a machine to remove it in the right spot and be the right size without taking too much or too little, there would be noticeable machine marks. Would also have to get the depth perfectly right without leaving machining marks. Not saying it couldn't be done but would add a lot of work after the fact. It's a deterrent not a 100% preventive measure.

 

Hmm, true. And with the upsetting done in a separate step prior to the strike in a traditional process, I suppose it would be very difficult to make absolutely certain that the missing reed is directly below the date every single time. At the very least it would turn it into a manual process for a counterfeiter (drastically slowing down production) unless they've figured out some sort of mechanical process to automatically rotate the planchet prior to the strike.

Now I'm kind of curious how the usmint does it...