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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hobo, post: 622132, member: 11521&quot;]<a href="http://www.numismaticnews.net/article/Reeds_on_dollar/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.numismaticnews.net/article/Reeds_on_dollar/" rel="nofollow">Reeds on dollar</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The question is HOW?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Reeding on modern coins is made by the collar die during striking. To my knowledge it has been about 180 years since reeding was applied in a separate step. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>A reeded collar for dollar coins has not been used since 1999 (last year of the SBA). Or has it? It is conceivable that somehow a reeded collar was somehow set in a coin press before this coin was struck - and then later run through the edge lettering machine - but it defies logic that no other examples have been reported. (You know that more than one coin was struck when this one was struck.) </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>And suppose that the press operator caught the mistake (i.e., the use of a reeded collar. He would have dumped the hopper with any coins minted in error with a reeded edge. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This is an interesting case. It will be interesting to learn the outcome.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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