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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BR549, post: 918332, member: 7110&quot;]Rather than stick my head in the sand, I&#039;d much rather stick my head in a bag of nickels, because those marks on the previous to Jefferson seen are not created by a shovel at the mint. </p><p><br /></p><p>The most likely scenario for 1974 are marks created after pressing, when the coins are dumped by gravity to collection hoppers, then dumped again into counting machines where once again gravity fills the mint bags for distribution to the Federal Reserve.</p><p><br /></p><p>Note: Any coins remaining in the hopper were simply pulled out by a T-Bar (like a rake)</p><p><br /></p><p>Bags of nickels (4,000) each were loaded on to steel wheel carts or pallets so a fork lift can move them...all this jostling with rides in a semi-trailer trucks, off loading, re-stacking and not one shovel used.</p><p><br /></p><p>These coins are just &quot;baggy&quot; coin in contact with another coin, which is acceptable to a certain point before the grade diminishes with the number or depth of contact.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bring out the BBQ sauce, because if what we are seeing here was created by a shovel, I will eat my shirt.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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