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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clawcoins, post: 3187454, member: 77814&quot;][USER=96129]@Brittany Coe[/USER]&nbsp; Other than all of the above,</p><p><br /></p><p>If you notice the rim edge of that one area is squished and pushed out but is inconsistent on both sides.</p><p><br /></p><p>If this was during the minting process the Collar keeps the cent nice and round.&nbsp; If you remove the collar then the cent gets squished out all around it.</p><p><br /></p><p>If the ejection is not 100%&nbsp; then normally it gets squished a bit in a circular fashion both top and bottom.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now to answer the question of &quot;why would someone do this&quot;</p><p>Don&#039;t reject why someone would do this.&nbsp; Accept what damage is and how it is unlimited in nature.</p><p><br /></p><p>For instance.&nbsp; In my old jeweler type days, using my jewelers vice I stopped using copper blanks (blank sheets of copper) and started using cents.&nbsp; Copper is used because it is nice and soft.&nbsp; Why ?&nbsp; (a) cents are much cheaper than copper blanks, (b) it&#039;s still worth money after use versus just being scrap, and (c) cents are essentially free and readily available ..&nbsp; to use as a buffer when holding items in the vice (this is before they started making all those neat soft, grippy vice jaws covers).&nbsp; I would simply close the vice with the cents when not using them.&nbsp; So I would plenty of times damage cents (and yes, quarters too), and they actually at times would get 2 squished at various overlap amount depending upon the item at hand and how inconsistently unflat it&#039;s surface was.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I in essence unknowingly at the time would churn out a bunch of cent errors !!</p><p>I should have just basement slabbed those and sold them off as errors.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is why it&#039;s important to understand the minting process.</p><p>And realize when something CANNOT happen during the minting process.</p><p><br /></p><p>Errors are limited</p><p>Damage is UNlimited by an unlimited number of methods.&nbsp; Don&#039;t discount damage just because you can&#039;t think, or believe why someone would do it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I laugh all the time when I see cents with incused designs on them especially if it&#039;s from another denomination.</p><p><br /></p><p>used to buy stuff like this for putting over the steel vice jaws ==&gt; <a href="https://www.riogrande.com/product/copper-6-x-12-sheet-dead-soft/132114gp" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.riogrande.com/product/copper-6-x-12-sheet-dead-soft/132114gp" rel="nofollow">https://www.riogrande.com/product/copper-6-x-12-sheet-dead-soft/132114gp</a></p><p>but cents are cheaper, more readily available at an instant notice and are still worth a cent when damaged. You can even just glue them on the vice jaw.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>hey, look at this thread and ask yourself &quot;why?&quot; ==&gt; <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/1799-coppers-turned-into-gears-valueless-and-priceless.323422/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/1799-coppers-turned-into-gears-valueless-and-priceless.323422/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/1799-coppers-turned-into-gears-valueless-and-priceless.323422/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>don&#039;t forget Hobo coinage. Why?</p><p>Making coins into Buttons, jewelry, entombing in plastic .. Why ?</p><p>putting on train rails .. or those novelty elongation machines ... why?</p><p><br /></p><p>..and the answer is .. because someone wanted to do it !![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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