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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1697580, member: 66&quot;]Use of a counting machine would not render a MS coin circulated. (Although it can cause damage that would make a MS coin ungradable.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Hobo has nailed one way such marks can be created.&nbsp; They can also be created in the mint bags when you consider how they were handled.&nbsp; It wasn&#039;t gently and one bag 55 pound bag slamming down on top of another could definitely cause damage to the coins inside depending on how they are arranged.&nbsp; The heating of the coins from the striking almost certainly has nothing to do with it though.&nbsp; The coins will not heat to more than about 200 degrees at most from the strike and a 200 degree coin is not going to be that much softer than a 70 degree coin (The metal melts at well over 1000 degrees).&nbsp; Also the coin will cool very quickly after striking.</p><p><br /></p><p>And if that first picture is your Franklin it is either not a proof, or a badly mishandled one, possibly recovered from a scrap silver bucket.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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