2021-S Morgan Dollar struck thru grease. The blob is still in the depression on the coin with tiny particles of silver trapped in the grease. Guess what I forgot to download? Please use your imagination for a few minutes.
I bet some member will start saying "quality control there is horrible. They should never allow any issues like that out of the Mint!" As if they really have the time to check every single coin
I was wondering which TPG was going to get a look at this one. Quite a glob of grease to leave such a crater.
I asked about this one from like 10 days ago, it's not mine someone was asking in the other forum. https://www.cointalk.com/threads/fr...s-thoughts-2021-s-morgan.388613/#post-7992909 they all thought it was damage which I thought was impossible. anyways here's some decent pics of the entire coin. I didn't know if strike through or planchet flaw and a cave in, but I did know it wasn't a bag mark or simple damage. eagle wing and breast is a bit weak on the reverse also from it.
Okay, now I'm confused. If it were just struck through grease on the obverse, I wouldn't expect reverse weakness in the same area. Am I just wrong in that assumption? Or was the reverse struck through grease as well, just in a wider area?
It shouldn't have any affect on the reverse unless some of the grease was on the reverse die too. The weak area on the reverse could be caused by grease or a poorly aligned die.
jeffB, posted: "Okay, now I'm confused. If it were just struck through grease on the obverse, I wouldn't expect reverse weakness in the same area. Am I just wrong in that assumption? Or was the reverse struck through grease as well, just in a wider area?" 1865King, answered:"It shouldn't have any affect on the reverse unless some of the grease was on the reverse die too. The weak area on the reverse could be caused by grease or a poorly aligned die." The reverse is NOT weakly struck. This is the way they all come. And my I add, these coins are the same quality of Daniel Carr's issues. I should have expected much better quality from a major world Mint! Unfortunately, the sharpness of our coinage has become less and less with each passing decade. Chris Winkler, asked:"Grease can damage metal? Would it not be some metal fragment?" The grease does not damage metal. What it does is prevent planchet metal from filling the die design. The results can be spectacular and appear as damage.
