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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 1576253, member: 4626&quot;]My guess, it&#039;s probably slot machine damage.&nbsp; Slot machines roll coins along their edge then drop them into the metal bin when they pay out.&nbsp; Since most people when they win half dollar slots just cash them back in at the casino&#039;s cashier cage, they usually get put right back in the slot machine.&nbsp; Repeated cycles of rolling and dropping tends to wear the reeds off the edge and the surface of the coin tends to have a badly beaten appearance from repeated contact marks, caused from them dropping on each other and also rubbing against each other.&nbsp; Slot machines are not nice to the coins they dispense.</p><p><br /></p><p>A large portion of the circulation of half dollars, to the degree they circulate at all, seems to be in slot machines, so this is a pretty common thing to see in roll and box searching of halves.&nbsp; You used to see this a lot with Ike and SBA dollars, but when casinos switched to using their own $1 tokens in the slots, they were finally spared this abuse.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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