Cuts on coin could this have happened at the mint

Correct. Have you seen the sanding disk struck with ase dies. Fred Weinberg had PCGS slab one or two and wants thousands. What they use them for I don't know. Polishing dies maybe

 

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Maybe due to a QC employee at the mint missing a couple incisors?

Cal

 

Didn't mean anything by it, just clarifying for the OP

 

No, you were right to clarify and your efforts are appreciated.

 

Well one thing it not is a grinder that cut into the coin . It was some type of hand sheers. And no I don't mind the answers. I'm a vet and had to get answers from command that would cost men's lives and most of the time from some know it all that couldn't find he's way to the L Z must less be any halp

 

Yes
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http://www.greatcollections.com/Coi...er-Eagle-Struck-on-3m-Sanding-Disc-PCGS-MS-64
Not my slab

 

Could it have happened at the mint before it entered circulation?

Yes.

Could it have happened after it left the mint and entered circulation?

Yes.

Is there any way to tell if it happened before or after it left them mint?

No.

Could it have happened before or during the minting process, thus making it a mint error?

No.

Since it happened after the strike it is Post Strike DAMAGE (PSD) whether the cuts happened before or after it left the mint.

 

In the early years of the silver eagles as the dies would start to become worn and start losing their satin finish they would strike a silver eagle through a disk of emory paper to dress up the finish on the dies. Those coins should have been scrapped but a few of them got out and slabbed with the emory paper still attatched. The slab Paddyman posted appears to be a piece of the emory paper that fell away from the coin and got out.

 

One would be surprised with I can do with my grinder and the correct disk mounted on the shaft!

 

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