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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 214189, member: 112&quot;]Have you seen pictures of the edge die ? It is a large block with an arced slot cut into it that is the same thickness as the coins. It is open on both ends and the coins are rolled through the slot by a wheel. They roll in one end and out the other. There is no ejector, they just roll through.</p><p><br /></p><p>Do you understand what happens when the coin is run through it ? If you look at your picture where the gouge on the edge is you can see that the rim is there on top of the metal that has been pushed up. That means the gouge occurred <u>after</u> the coin left the edge die. Otherwise the metal could not have been pushed up. It would have been contained by the edge die itself because the slot in the die is exactly as thick as the coin itself. You can also see the ragged edges where the letters on the edge were cut by whatever made the gouge. </p><p><br /></p><p>So what made the gouge then ? You say it had to be done during the striking process because the coins came from a sealed roll. But that&#039;s not so because of the process the coins go through. As you know, after the coins are struck they go into large bags which are shipped out of the mint and to the Federal Reserve - or they are shipped in the same large bags to a private company who then rolls the coins for the mint. Either way, coins that end up in rolls go through several hands, other than those of the mint, before they end up in rolls. They also go through several more machines - counting machines, rolling machines and boxing machines. </p><p><br /></p><p>So when you think it all through it becomes obvious that the gouge was not caused by the striking process because it could not have been. It is damage that was caused, more than likely, by the rolling machine.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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