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Message:: [QUOTE="Howard Black, post: 3557866, member: 97119"]I could swear I read something about this kind of coin, but can't for the life of me remember where it was or what it said. The coin is off-center, has a small degree of cupping on the NW of the obverse, the reeding on the rim is uneven -- sometimes a bit concave, in other points convex, and at times slightly "tilted" toward one side of the coin. It's 1.30 - 1.42mm thick, 17.86 - 17.92mm diameter, and weighs 2.28gm. The oddest part is that from roughly 9:00 to 11:00 on the obverse there is what looks like finning, with another set of reeds inside the finning. I've provided images taken straight-on and from an angle to try to show this. It looks as if there's a reeded coin that's "jacketed" by a thin ring of metal with its own reeding on the outside. I know that's not what's going on, so no need to correct me on that -- I'm just saying that's the best description I can provide as to how it looks. One other thing which I've noticed before (usually on pennies), and can barely be seen here (but is glaringly visible to the naked eye if he light hits it just right) are for lack of a better term "glitters" -- on this coin, red and green round/flat discs, quite small, highly reflective. I've seen them in varying sizes (or so it seems), I don't think I've seen other than red and green (together), and they seem to be embedded in the kind of dark gunk you can see here. Is the Mint doing something that involves the use of red and green "glitter" bits? Or is there some kind of post-mint activity that puts them there? [Edited to add closeup of "inner" reeds, and that this is a 1995-P] [ATTACH=full]945792[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]945793[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]945794[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]945795[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]945803[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]

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