What ARE These Common Marks..?

[Guest]

Good morning.

After disregarding these marks on about 1,000 coins, I thought I'd finally break down and ask what they are. I'm sure you have all seen these. They usually come in a row of 3 (such as this example on a 1972d), but I sometimes see them in rows of 2 as well.

Any ideas or knowledge of them?

Thank you.

-Geo

[kloccwork419]

Its a bag mark. Where another coin hit it. It think they call them bag marks from when they put coins in bags they just smack into each other

[georoxx]

Really?

Never woulda figured THAT in a million years. Those marks look nothing like any part of an LC... that I can pinpoint, anyway.

Thanks for the assist, Jason.

-Geo

[Roller]

I also see them regularly. I always assumed they had to be either from a counting or rolling machine.

[kloccwork419]

Its the edge of most likely a quarter or dime. Some reeded edge coin made that mark

[georoxx]

Just found another one of these, so I took out a dime to find that the reeded edge matches up perfectly.

Thanks again. (When you first said "bag of coins", Jason, I immediately and incorrectly assumed a bag full o' LC's.)

Question answered.

Cheers.

-Geo

[DoubleYou]

Actually, the proper term is "contact mark." Otherwise, you got it right: it came from the reeded edge of a dime or quarter (or half dollar or dollar, but unlikely) banging into the coin.

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Wendell Carper

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[kloccwork419]

http://coins.about.com/od/coinsglossary/g/bagmarkdefined.htm

lolol..had to throw it at you...

[jfines69]

Looks like someone was checking to see if it was gold... With their teeth... LOL!!!

[DoubleYou]

http://coins.about.com/od/coinsgloss...arkdefined.htm


lolol..had to throw it at you...

Hmmmmm..... I wonder how I got a different impression when I read the Official ANA Grading Standards....

Wendell