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Message:: [QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4353934, member: 19463"]At one point, I started a specialty sub-collection of these (it takes all kinds of collector to make a hobby).  These are some of my favorites:Like yours, my Paullus has a very shallow scoop showing ten stutters.[ATTACH=full]1101632[/ATTACH] A weak strike and deep scoop resulted in a flat spot on the obverse worse than most.[ATTACH=full]1101627[/ATTACH] While it only stutters twice, this shows especially sharp scoop details.[ATTACH=full]1101631[/ATTACH] This is what happens when a coin has a scoop on the obverse that got caved in by a banker's punch on the reverse.  I bought this really hoping it was a rare example with a scoop on both sides.  It is not. [ATTACH=full]1101629[/ATTACH] The scooping was done to assure that a certain number of coins weighed a certain amount.  No great effort was made to adjust each coin to an average weight but that the batch total was right.  No effort was made to scoop heavier coins rather than lighter ones.  When a coin was scooped, it was thrown back into the bunch which was weighed and repeated until the total was exactly correct.  That means it is possible that a coin could be grabbed to be scooped a second time and the operator might not notice.  I imagine this was done very rapidly so this detail might be missed on rare occasion.  That's why I want one with two scoops.[/QUOTE]