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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;foundinrolls, post: 717687, member: 4350&quot;]Hi,</p><p><br /></p><p>I am not trying to put down dealers as a whole but many of us in the error and die variety field know for a fact that many dealers know nothing to very little about error coins and they guess at what they are looking at.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin is without question a victim of post mint damage.&nbsp; It is impossible in many instances to determine just what damaged a coin as the possibilities are only limited by the imaginations of people with too much time on their hands.&nbsp; Those people have come up with an infinite number of ways to destroy coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>What is important is that there is no way at the Mint for this kind of damage to be part of the Minting process.</p><p><br /></p><p>There will be some train wrecks out there that are legitimate errors that may have some similarities to post mint damaged coins but close examinations of the coins in question can lead us to pretty solid conclusions even when we only have images to work with.</p><p><br /></p><p>Again, a case of post mint damage on this one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks,</p><p>Bill[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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