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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;crystalk64, post: 73008, member: 1873&quot;]The U.S. just started this last year having bought the technology from Europe. They thought this would be a quicker way to get rid of damaged or error coins they produce but quickly found out many collectors would pay really big money to get their hands on one. A batch of damaged and waffled Missouri statehood quarters made it onto the open market and averaged around $70 each after being authenticated and slabbed. Rumor has it this WILL NOT happen again even though the company that buys the mint scrap, as it is called, takes legal ownership when it leaves the mint. Could get rather interesting over here in the near future. I have a set of waffled Belgium coins that were actually put out by the Belgium mint with a regular issue mint set of Euros in 2003 or 2004 (don&#039;t know without looking). The waffled coins were demonitized coins taken out of circulation when the euro was introduced. While it is a neat set to say I own I have no desire to collect mint scrap coins at this time. To each his own![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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