Kennedy halves with identical marks

Can one of you yeenius's tell me how these halves get this same damage in same place from diff mintages?

 

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Where are you, ?

 

Rite heya los Angeles

 

OK. I meant in the forum

 

Hey.. You just hijacked somone elses thread with a question that has nothing to do with the original coin in question. You need to start your own separate thread. [Edit- the off-topic posts have now been moved to their own thread. ~Mod]

Your coin is damaged Anyway.
That is not a mint error of any kind.

 

At the mint maybe but thanks anyway.didnt meen to hijack.

 

That does not occur at the US Mint. Someone was bored and altered your Halves after they left the Mint.

 

If you'll notice all the coins have the same mechanical damage in the same location on all coins regardless of year minted.my hunch is its from some part of the minting process.macine failure of some nature.what makes you so positive that it cant be mint related.do you work on mint machines?

 

Hey paddy long time.thanks for your input.stay healthy.

 

Definitely post mint damage. One doesn't have to work on machines at the mint to understand the minting process.

 

A. A coin rolling machine jammed them and marked them. (Unlikely)

B. A person wacked them in those locations to mark them. (Likely)

 

The minting and die making process is well documented and many numismatists and error specialists have studied it and understand it. The US mint has some videos and there have been numerous good reference links posted on here over the years.

The reason these members can be so sure that this didn't happen at the mint is they know and understand the minting process and have demonstrated that knowledge through their posts on this site over the years.

There are countless ways for coins to get damaged after they leave the mint. In order to say it's a mint error, you have to explain how this could happen during the minting process. I can see where your hunch might seem to make sense, but if you take the time to learn and understand the minting process, it will be easy to see that this couldn't happen at the mint.

Hope this helps

 

They all fell into the clutches of the same bored person, who used the same tool to inflict the same damage on each of them.

 

Nice!
These are a very rare error, indeed. The indentations were made by a machine called the ‘Devil’s Claw’. It’s usually kept at the Denver Mint, but has been occasionally used in Philly, too. It’s used to randomly test the hardness of a finished coin. Most coins pass with ease, however some do fail and the failed coins are supposed to be rejected. Apparently, the coins you have did fail and somehow made it into circulation.
Maybe I should have waited until April 1 to share this. The OP wanted an answer...

 

Very interesting analogy Scuba4fun777. Thanks for the post igotchange.

 

In all seriousness, these marks are considered PMD, or post mint damage - even if for some strange reason they were added at the mint.
Why? Because someone could easily add these indentations and there would be almost no way to determine if they were added at the mint or afterwards.

 

Sorry, I'm going to have to cite you for a violation of the law.

(I know there'll be somebody who quits reading before the last line, or decides that that's the part that wasn't serious...)

 

Nothing Important or special about those marks

as others have said PMD

 

Delusions of grandeur of perceived findings amongst budding numistmatists seems to be a bigger contagion than the virus we are all cowering in fear of . . . .

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May you receive nitrogen narcosis for x mas my good man brought on from escaping the clutches of a rabid starfish.