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<p>[QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 2538699, member: 1892"]The one thing you can be certain of is, it's a physical impossibility to do this at the Mint. It takes two dies to strike a coin, and dies are not flat (they're conical) until they're hubbed with the actual coin pattern. So there's nothing even in the building at the Mint capable of creating a completely flat-sided coin. Therefore, whether someone ground off the obverse side or not (sometimes all we can do is guess), whatever happened to it was after it left government possession.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 2538699, member: 1892"]The one thing you can be certain of is, it's a physical impossibility to do this at the Mint. It takes two dies to strike a coin, and dies are not flat (they're conical) until they're hubbed with the actual coin pattern. So there's nothing even in the building at the Mint capable of creating a completely flat-sided coin. Therefore, whether someone ground off the obverse side or not (sometimes all we can do is guess), whatever happened to it was after it left government possession.[/QUOTE]
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