Frankly, who cares? Honestly, who gives a damn if there is some minuscule mark on a coin because the mint tested the planchet or die? How boring is it looking at every cent for a dot that may or may not exist? I guess some are looking for a payday by scamming some fool out of their money on eBay or Etsy. Maybe they come here hoping to get confirmation from a similar fool so they can use that as advertising. Whatever it is, it is certainly a sad existence.
WOW,,, don't humiliate yourself now, you're the enthusiast if that's how you feel about rare coins why are you on here??? [Edited - stop the name calling and personal insults. Feel free to disagree with each other, but keep it civil, Mod Team]
There is another thread on the specifics, but in this context a Rockwell Test has to do with testing the hardness of the dies and a sampling of planchets' hardness. Previous threads have the mint on record as saying that they destroy all the test planchets and that the hardness test is done on the side of the die (not the face) so there is no pimple or raised dot on a struck coin. Some folks feel that planchets were struck and sent coins into circulation with a "crater". And others think the test was done on the face of the die and then used to strike coins and created a dot. Why they would damage the face of a die and then continue using it doesn't make a lot of "cents" to me.
1963 and 1990 were not transitional years. You can call me anything you want because I will never see it.
Hey I'm not the one speaking edited by telling people that they dont have something of value and causing them to spend it so someone else can get it *in hopes of it being myself... Edited: Stop the remarks, they are derogatory and unnecessary.
Well, having read ZERO posts following your #1 post, and seeing 'NEW MEMBER', I'm guessing you posted something ELSE, for which 1 or 2 resident jacka55es posted responses in bad attitude. So, without doing research of everyone's posts, tell us in short: have you won, or lost? ed.: and having a [more than] marginal knowledge of engineering, I know most testing is NOT NDT...
How can they do it on the side??? The side of a coin is much more stronger then the back of a coin do to the laws of phsyics... That would defeat the whole purpose of the test... Now that's just simple common sense
They all look like they are worth "ONE CENT" to me. I'll leave chapter of numismatic history this to the mint trivia historians.
Fine. But IF I was close, and you posted about something valuable recently, and you've now posted results about testing to prove value, then you've won the battle, but lost the war? Can we get the whole story here?
Yes theyre suppose to destroy test coin so that means the 1982 D small date copper penny does not exist, the 1943 copper penny does not exist, and the 1944 steel penny does not exist,,,right? Yes theyre suppose to destroy test coins... so that means the 1982 D small date copper penny does not exist, the 1943 copper penny does not exist, and the 1944 steel penny does not exist,,,right? ... The reason it doesn't make cents to you is because you don't have it
Make sure the work you intend to do stays within the boundary of the forum's rules. You are a guest here. Play nice. Jim
