Die Adjustment Strike, Roosevelt Dime

By NGC own definition: These coins are bundled and sent for destruction.

There are way too many of these coins out in commerce and in slabs to be escapees. Therefore most of these are just related to an equipment malfunction.
Dimes are the easiest denomination to find them on because of the die clearance.

From the bottom of the page OLD Hoopster posted.

"This distribution pattern is also at odds with the once-popular notion that weak strikes are generated when a press is first turned on and when it’s shut off."

The Schuller press's used today, usually do not require die adjustments.

 

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I found five on eBay that were certified by NGC and ANACS. Is that way too many to be escapees? I'm not being argumentative, I just don't know.

 

Humanity is truly the biggest error of them all.

 

Still don't understand itspecifically the first one 150 bucks for a little worn die strike. Think I actually might of found these CRH but put them back because I thought they were nothing serious.

 

But that doesn't look like a worn die to me. I see a weakly-struck coin from perfectly good dies. Of course I could be totally wrong - I know very little about errors.

 

Equipment plays a factor here and when a 'weak strike' was produced (mechanical vs. hydraulic presses). Date of the anomaly may lend a clue. To your point, custody of the setup and pre-production run coins are carefully monitored. I have clients that produce government parts and anything in these categories must by mutilated by procedure and the scrap kept separate from everything else. Government inspectors will verify count/weight and inventory material scrap. I would have to assume that this is even more stringently watched inside the mint. But clearly, opportunity exists. And if a third-party bonded scrap material vendor is in play, more opportunity for a valuable weak strike to end up in the hands of collectors. Certainly, weak strikes occurring in production can find their way into commerce. Normally, production is separated as it occurs so that if a problem is detected, they can go back through the earlier bins until they no longer see the problem. This is quite common, even outside of the government run jobs. Other industries want to be able to segregate production during the run (e.g., aerospace, automotive, etc.). From what I've observed, hydraulic presses require a bit less maintenance and adjustment. I don't know the answer regarding vertical vs horizontal presses.

I agree with your assessment: most weak strikes are from Production...not Setup.

 

The first one new ANACS is graded as a weak strike. The seller calls it a die adjustment.
I think that NGC is set in their ways.
The soap box slab is well within the time period that all weak strikes were called adjustment strikes.

 

Sorry for being late getting back to you. If a coin is not struck with the correct pressure it will not flatten it out enough for the edge of the coin to touch the collar die and imprint the reeding onto the edge of the coin.