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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clawcoins, post: 3078597, member: 77814&quot;]Damage, or &quot;Post Mint Damage&quot; aka PMD</p><p>can be ANY type of damage occurring after it has left the mint.</p><p>There are millions of ways and more that a coin can be damaged.</p><p><br /></p><p>I used to use coin in jewelry work as buffers to other things .. so they would get damaged.&nbsp; I used to use copper blanks but those cost money, and pennies if damaged were always worth 1 cent no matter what. but just think of where you have found money ... on the ground, parking lot, all scratched up in a jar, stuck in the clothes dryer/washer, garbage disposal, cat threw up ... the list goes on forever.</p><p><br /></p><p>The key is learning what is possible at the Mint and researching how coins are made and then being able to distinguish what are real errors and what is simply PMD.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only real possible way to answer a question is to see pictures.</p><p>you know, a picture is worth a thousand words.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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