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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2097335, member: 66&quot;]The &quot;waffling&quot; machine was put into use by the mint sometime in the late 1990&#039;s or early 2000&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>When they discover a serious die error they do destroy all the coins from those dies that are still in the individual presses holding bins.&nbsp; It would be too difficult to track down pieces that had already been mixed in with the output of other presses and too wasteful to condemn the days output from all the presses.</p><p><br /></p><p>The mint has never released the waffled coins for sale directly.&nbsp; The waffled coins coming on the market are the result of people either purchasing scrap from the mint (GSA sales), or from purchasing scrap from the large companies that do buy it.&nbsp; Usually the scrap is repurchased by the companies that make the coinage strip for the Mint.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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