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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 24552113, member: 59677&quot;]Today, there are two screeings... at mint before dropping into the balistic nylon bags and at the contracted coin terminals when they are counted and wrapped. That&#039;s for circulation coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Before the CCTs some coins were wrapped at the mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>Todsy the mint also wraps coins for collector rolls.</p><p><br /></p><p>The mint uses a riddler to screen for coins that are too small or too large. It has two vibrating screens, one just smaller than the coin is supposed to be and one just larger.</p><p><br /></p><p>But coins can fall into the good zone (the middle layer) as long as one dimension can pass. Thus double struck coins aren&#039;t always caught.</p><p><br /></p><p>Never-the-les, the more exotic the &quot;error&quot; the more likely there were helping hands involved...</p><p><br /></p><p>There is no way an 1898 gold piece just happened to get overstruck by a 1970s quarter without help. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://minterrornews.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://minterrornews.com/" rel="nofollow">https://minterrornews.com/</a> issue 66...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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