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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 988391, member: 57463&quot;]I will bet you a quarter that you cannot!&nbsp; Try it!&nbsp; First of all, with even a silver coin -- and silver is supposedly a &quot;soft&quot; metal -- the stiking process hardens the coin.&nbsp; Our modern cupro-nickel coins are more like battleship armor.</p><p><br /></p><p>It takes machinery to cut one or cut into one.&nbsp; We have a local coin guy and jeweler who makes engraved thingees.&nbsp; It is work.&nbsp; I tried cutting fake silver dollars for an ANA Theater presentation with the same bolt cutters I used as a security guard to bust Master brand locks.&nbsp; No way.&nbsp; With repeated effort, I cut two before I tired out.</p><p><br /></p><p>This impacts the questions of counterstamps and banker&#039;s marks and chop marks.&nbsp; One afternoon, my father-in-law let me play in his workshop (while he watched) and we talked about coins.&nbsp; I used his steel punches the kind machinists use to mark machinery to put his initials on a quarter.&nbsp; Then, he tried it.&nbsp; We tried wood block for backing.&nbsp; We tried steel plates for backing.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>That, too, reflects on Error Coins and this topic.&nbsp; I have worked in automotive production and I understand the rudiments of factory mint manufacturing.&nbsp; Errors happen.&nbsp; But, often as not, I think that some of these errors are purposely made by employees who shim and jimmy the machines.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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