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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Howard Black, post: 3511097, member: 97119&quot;]I found this while going through a box of pennies (Brinks) purchased at the local small-town bank, in hope of finding something that might have trickled down from the &quot;Great American Coin Hunt.&quot; Whether or not I did is something I don&#039;t know. I haven&#039;t yet done much besides rough-sort them into decades, and pull out any BU and otherwise obviously interesting coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I found what seem to be well above average BU coins, quite a few up to a half-century old, including a 1969-D which looks nicer than the two 2019-D cents from the same box (the only 2019 cents I&#039;ve ever found; the 2019-P &quot;Lowell&quot; quarter I found while searching six rolls has squelched any real hope of finding a &quot;W&quot; quarter out here in the wilds of Western Michigan; at a 1:200 coin ratio, I&#039;d need to go through 48,000 quarters to find one &quot;W&quot; -- and that&#039;s just not gonna happen).</p><p><br /></p><p>As to this thing... what is it? A garage-job? A Mint test strike of some kind? It appears to be done with enough care to obviate &quot;accidental&quot; causation. But by the same token I can&#039;t think of any reason someone would go to the effort of doing it (and, placing it just where a mintmark would have gone).</p><p><br /></p><p>I tried doing some web searching, and didn&#039;t find anything -- but that might only be due to my inability to come up with appropriate search terms for my queries.</p><p><br /></p><p>I once again apologize for the cruddy photos. I still haven&#039;t put together a rig to enable me to use my Micro Nikkor on my DSLR (but I did buy a small copy stand which I&#039;ll be modifying for such use; my (ahem) &quot;health&quot; has really got me off my game). I&#039;m getting there little by little. With any luck I&#039;ll get it done before I die.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first photo was taken at an angle (looking upward), to get a better look at the depth of the &quot;donut&quot; and the height of the &quot;pin&quot; in the center.</p><p><br /></p><p>From the degree of tarnish it seems IMO to have been done either at the time of minting or not long after.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]931071[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]931073[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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