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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Oldhoopster, post: 8466135, member: 84179&quot;]Damaged. Why?&nbsp; Who knows?&nbsp; Why would the mint remove a die from service, cancel it, then strike more coins?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Finding them in mixed rolls should give you an idea that they were from a customer, not the mint.&nbsp; They are random circulated quarters from a bank deposit or coin star that were rolled By a bank or one of the distributors like Brinks.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can also see from the pics that they are scratches. The lines are indented.&nbsp; What you perceive as raised, is actually displaced metal from the scratch.</p><p><br /></p><p>The mint does not deface the used dies with thin scratches.&nbsp; They either torch or grind the complete design from the die.&nbsp; A few Atlanta Olympic dies were defaced with an X and were sold to collectors and look nothing like the scratches on your coin</p><p><br /></p><p>I recommend using some of your coin searching time to study the minting and die making processes.&nbsp; in the long run, you&#039;ll waste a lot less if you continue to search for errors.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1499837[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1499838[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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