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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 24770467, member: 68&quot;]Coins that are damaged often originate in places like automobile recycler.&nbsp; When the car is shredded a few of the coins in it will fall out of the machinery and are often heavily damaged.&nbsp; Alternatively banks will save them up in a bucket and someone will end up repairing them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Repair is very easy.&nbsp; It&#039;s just a few well placed taps with a ballpeen hammer and then filing them back down to round.&nbsp; Most of them take a few seconds and they&#039;ll even go through vending machines and coin counters (usually). Nobody wants quantities of these because they don&#039;t all work so they are usually dispersed a few at a time.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Up until about 2010 a great number of culls had accumulated in circulation but now days it appears the FED contractors are finally pulling out distorted, bent, and mangled coin.&nbsp; Heavily damaged coins are still in circulation but these are mostly coins that are eaten by chemicals or heavily tarnished.&nbsp; Many culls in circulation have deep scratches or are covered by thousands and thousands of little scratches.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>To get an idea of how bad this is getting try finding a nice heavily worn 1971 nickel.&nbsp; This is one of the best dates so nice examples get pulled out leaving only garbage.&nbsp; If you don&#039;t go through a lot of nickels you probably won&#039;t find one so just observe how banged up and cull the 1965 to 1973 nickels and quarters are.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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