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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;foundinrolls, post: 699487, member: 4350&quot;]Hi,</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve fooled with this in the past<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; If you take a cent and stick it between two pieces of&nbsp; heavy leather, obverse side up (Belting Leather works well),&nbsp; and you whack the coin &quot;sandwich&quot; with a heavy hammer, the obverse spreads a little and the reverse gets pushed down into the bottom piece of leather.&nbsp; It may take more than one whack with a hammer but the coin eventually looks like the one up above.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the ways that I&#039;ve come up with in general to prove post mint damage on some coins has to do with various ways of duplicating them.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If there is no function at the Mint that can cause a certain look and I can duplicate the &quot;look&quot; with a hammer , a tool, a chemical or a combination thereof,&nbsp; I can pretty much rule out an error and rule in a man made coinage catastrophe<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Have Fun,</p><p>Bill[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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