if you find the same thing wrong on multiple coins is it a mint error?

these are seperate coins. advice appreciateted.

 

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Those are all die gouges. They are common and not considered an error.

 

Hard to tell if they are raised or not...if they are raised, I would agree with Jody.

 

They don't appear to be die gouges to me. You can see where metal has been pushed up (crater effect) to the west in the first two and to the northwest in the last two. This would lead me to believe it is PMD caused after the coins were struck despite the similarities.

Chris

 

yes they are all raised. is there not a chance it might be something else?

 

It's hard to properly orient the eyes to these coins, especially in photos this close, but the areas in question appear raised based upon which areas of the coin are raised. Judging by Bryan's response that they are indeed raised, then I would say they are definitely die gouges.

 

I keeep looking and looking at these images and they still appear incused to me. (Brain Games). Being incused on a device I was going to suggest abrasion/gouge on a hub.

 

i am going out on a limb to ask a dumb question... in the first 2 pics, if that was a die gouge, would it not continue through the wall of the suns rays? iin other words wouldn't it be one gouge start to finish? not look like it ended on one spot and continued on the other side?

 

Bryan,

Here's a link that shows the same type of die scrapes, but on other denominations as well. You'll see the similarity, and it's easier to see the raised nature of the scrape in these photos-

http://www.error-ref.com/die-scrapes.html

 

well that answers any other questions i might have. ty and ty to everyone else

 

How about die clashes. Basically the same type of marks on coins from multiple dies.

 

As far as a clash goes, there is nothing on the obverse that would correspond to these marks.