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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 623519, member: 66&quot;]Correction, he found ONE coin like that.&nbsp; If he had found a bunch of identical pieces then I would be more inclinded to accept it as a mint error.</p><p><br /></p><p>Second, note the uneven spacing of the &quot;reeds&quot;.&nbsp; This is not something done in a collar.</p><p><br /></p><p>Could it be from a damaged blanking punch?&nbsp; Three problems.&nbsp; Damaged all the way around the punch?&nbsp; Not likely.&nbsp; Two a damaged punch would leave marks on the edge of the hole in the sheet, not the blank.&nbsp; And three if the blank did show the damage it would be pretty well wiped out by the upsetting machine and the smooth collar when the coin was struck. (I have a couple of Conder tokens that have lettered edge that were struck in a plain smooth collar and it does a pretty good job of crushing the edge flat.&nbsp; You can only see faint traces of the lettering now.</p><p><br /></p><p>Can&#039;t be a half dollar blank, the blanks aren&#039;t reeded, the blank would be too big, and the composition would be wrong.</p><p><br /></p><p>No this is just a coin that has somehow gotten damaged or &quot;played with&quot; between the time it was struck and when it got to the edge lettering machine.&nbsp; I would still classify it as post mint damage, but damage that occured while it was still inside the mint.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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