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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;princeofwaldo, post: 1408045, member: 24091&quot;]Have to disagree with you there.&nbsp; While weight of the coin may have been checked in some automated method, there still had to be some way of insuring the coins were of full weight, or more importantly, were not over weight.&nbsp; I&#039;ve seen videos filmed in the early 1930s of Sovereigns being minted, and the coins were still weighed individually after they were struck.&nbsp; If they were doing it in the early 1930s, then it stands to reason the same held true at the turn of the century.&nbsp; Presumably not many coins would have fell outside of tolerance, but of those that did by a limited amount of deviation, the traditional method of adjusting the weight with a file seems fairly likely in my estimation.&nbsp; Unusual on a coin from the late 19th century?&nbsp; Yeah, agree with that much.&nbsp; But certainly not impossible.&nbsp; And the damage is consistent with what was typically removed from a coin via adjustment file a century earlier.&nbsp; I stand with NGC all the way on this one, no question it&#039;s something that happened at the mint as part of the manufacture process.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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