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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 24638586, member: 24314&quot;]@JeffB You are acting EXACTLY the way I encourage all collectors to be!&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; <b><span style="color: #ff0000">Never believe anything until you find out for yourself!</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately, if I were to answer this question other than saying &quot;experience,&quot; I should be accused of being a know-it-all, bragging about where I have been, seen, and done on multiple occasions, and posting in a very snarky and condesending</p><p>way (It&#039;s my nature as a <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie93" alt=":troll:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />) to someone asking me a valid and serious question. </p><p><br /></p><p>So Jeff, since I was not around when this Mint error was made, you can regard this quiz as just something I made up until you see this for yourself. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>You might see if you can find some coins with Mint &quot;gunk&quot; imbeded with various metal flakes on their surface.&nbsp; The way they are on the coin and what they look like will tell you if they occurred inside the Mint or became attached in circulation.&nbsp; Your bet bet is searching BU dimes and quarters dated between 1945 and 1964.</p><p><br /></p><p>PS The coin in the OP is a good example of one type of unusual Mint-made debris.&nbsp; That&#039;s why it imaged it in the first place and posted it&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie57" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> PS I hjust though of a quicker and easier way to make you a believer. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Start checking the reeding of modern clad quarters you get in change or buy a bunch of bank wrapped rolls.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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