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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Seattlite86, post: 3630079, member: 59737&quot;]Whether the scratches are identical is irrelevant to whether they happened at the mint or not. I can make the same damage on any coin I want. If the scratches are raised, it’s mint-induced. If they are scratched into the coin, it was not done before the strike. No if’s, and’s, or but’s. </p><p><br /></p><p>Coin photography isn’t easy. That’s why I gave the OP advice on taking better photos. When the OP said he didn’t have a smart phone, I switched gears and asked the OP simply to tell us whether the scratches are raised or not. </p><p><br /></p><p>Lastly, there were no insults thrown, no one made fun of the OP. What we did was say “I’m not sure this happened at the mint, can you give us more information for us to make a decision?”</p><p><br /></p><p>The fact that you think you’ve learned something from what is, as yet, inconclusive, is concerning. If those scratches are not raised, then the coins were not damaged pre-strike, meaning you’ve now “learned” something untrue about the minting process and errors.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is something you should learn about error coins. Anything can be done to any coin the exact same way, when it comes to damaging a coin. Whether you have 1 or 100 of the same coin exhibiting the same thing does not do anything to help us determine if it’s an error. What matters are the diagnostics of the coin. If the coins showed have raised scratches, it is a mint error. If the scratches are down into the coin, they are PMD, and trying to determine how coins were damaged after strike is really just a guessing game.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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