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Message:: [QUOTE="900fine, post: 1024420, member: 6036"]I suppose it's possible it's a planchet flaw, but I tend to think it's post-Mint damage. Blunt force trauma. Planchet flaws like that usually resulted from problems in the rolling presses; the resulting strip had problems, so flans made from the strip had problems. Those problems tended to be on one side only, not both sides as we're seeing here. I'm sure there were exceptions, and this might be one of them. All that is useful and interesting, and there is merit in discussing whether it's "as made" or post-Mint damage... but there's another, bigger issue. How does the gash affect you personally ? If you can appreciate the coin as it is, that's cool. Some can, some can't, and that's true of all problems with coins. Rim bumps. Some folks just can't stand early copper with rim bumps. For me, they're not too bad. That personal, subjective difference is why there is such drastic Net Grade difference in opinion for coins with problems. With problem-free coins, we tend to see more agreement in grade.[/QUOTE]