Opened a roll of 1978D cents and found this. Appears to be lettering but did not find a coin that was damaged - but found 5 of these. What would this error be termed and how was it produced?
Today I received my 2019 US Mint sets (Mint item #19RJ). I found a couple of what I guess are process errors with 2 of the Philadelphia sets. 1) One set I have 2 Lowell quarter and missing the Mariana Island quarter. 2) The other set I have an extra Lincoln Penny on the top of the San Antonio Quarter inside the sealed case (reverse side showing). I assume that the penny is from the Philadelphia. I have pictures but don't know how to post them.
Can't tell from the edge photos either, what this might be from. Different, that's for sure - the size of the 'bump' seems to be a bit different in them - The edges of the cents look like they might have been Type 1 blanks - possibly. Any other thoughts? I'd say PMD from a counting or rolling machine, but I don't recall every seeing this pattern, and even though the size is slightly different on a few of them, PMD shouldn't put the 'bumps' in the same spot on all 5..... ?
Not PMD...damage is in exactly same place on all 5 coins. Very strange! maybe damage from being ejected from press?
Interesting. Not sure what to make of it. Would be curious to see any other coins of the same year and if they also have similar damage in other places.
If you've ever watched a sale's clerk open a roll of coins by banging the roll against a counter edge you might have an idea how these dents could have been created.
It's not from a damaged die, I'm fairly certain. I agree with the above post that they 'look' like they've been banged against a counter, but they are in the same place (minor diff. in sizes) so that's not it either. Could be a collar issue, but I've never seen anything close to this as a collar error.
They shouldn't be damaged on the reverse face if it was from banging on a counter...should they? Steve
The only way a counter would be effective is if they were the outside coins and rolled with the same orientation. (possible but not likely. I wouldn't put damage out of the guess's but I'd like to think it could have been done at the mint.
Update: Went back through the rest of the roll again. Found three additional coins - but with much smaller indentions. Again it appears that they all are in the same positions but the bottom two pictures show that it either progressed to stronger presentation or digressed from strong to weaker. The third picture is hard to see but it shows above the AM but no where else.
Imho, it reminds me of the waffle rim that happens on edge lettering. It happens a lot on the Canadian toonies.
Really great to have a REAL puzzler on our hands, not a "mint error" that is easily identifiable as PMD or an actual mint error that is equally easily identifiable. Looking forward to what this eventually turns out to be. Steve
