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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Oldhoopster, post: 3293554, member: 84179&quot;]It couldn&#039;t have left the mint, because it couldn&#039;t be made by the mint.&nbsp; A die wouldn&#039;t be able to produce the area of raised metal without having a circular hole in it.&nbsp; A broken die would not produce a slightly tapered, circular hole.&nbsp; It is hardened steel and would crack/shatter.&nbsp; And something would also have to be impressed into the die to form the texture/pattern on the obverse.&nbsp; It&#039;s equivalent to a Ford coming off the assembly line with a GM Engine.&nbsp; Can&#039;t happen.</p><p><br /></p><p>Somebody did some very interesting damage to your coin, that you can&#039;t explain, but if you study the minting and die making processes, you&#039;ll understand it can&#039;t be done at the mint.&nbsp; Washer strike through? No. The design is visible and there is no design on the hole.&nbsp; Shattered die? No (explained above).&nbsp; A mint employee drilling a hole in a die? No.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If you really think you have something, then you need to come up with a plausible theory on how this could made at the mint, not trying to explain how it was made outside the mint (there are too many ways for people to mess with coins).&nbsp; All of those funky errors like the 1970S quarter struck on a 1941 Canadian quarter, or the crazy multiple planchet capped dies, or even the quarter/Sacagawea dollar mule can be explained with the normal minting processes.&nbsp; This coin? No.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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