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<p>[QUOTE="Arizona Jack, post: 302316, member: 9308"]One of the more common ways is to shave a mintmark from another coin, then there is the build up by removing metal around the mintmark to form a mm, like the hobo nickels remove metal to form a picture, and an old way, much less common is to go thru the side of the coin with a drill near the surface and insert a " punch" and emboss the mintmark like the old Dymo labels would emboss the plastic label strips, then plug the hole in the circumferance.</p><p> </p><p>Many many more ways I dont know I'm sure.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Arizona Jack, post: 302316, member: 9308"]One of the more common ways is to shave a mintmark from another coin, then there is the build up by removing metal around the mintmark to form a mm, like the hobo nickels remove metal to form a picture, and an old way, much less common is to go thru the side of the coin with a drill near the surface and insert a " punch" and emboss the mintmark like the old Dymo labels would emboss the plastic label strips, then plug the hole in the circumferance. Many many more ways I dont know I'm sure.[/QUOTE]
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