My 1st Body bag coin Wheel Mark???

jabba

1968 S 1C Strk 5% Off center
Obverse Wheel Mark

I dont have a way to take a photo right now. So Please school me on wheel mark's, does any one have a photo of one so I can compare.
Thanks,
David

airplanenut

A wheel mark will be a patch (usually curved) of freshly exposed metal--it comes from a coin getting stuck in a counter and rubbed by the counting wheel/coins that ran over it.

Jeremy

DeputyPud

And many times there will be a thin discolored mark (black) from a wheel.

Peaceman

What Jeremy said.....

jabba

<< <i>And many times there will be a thin discolored mark (black) from a wheel. >>



Thanks guys, I can see it now! That sucks

Dearth

Is there a safe way to remove wheel marks?

STONE

<< <i>Is there a safe way to remove wheel marks? >>


Ummmmmm, NO

LotsoLuck

Washie Wheel Mark

DNADave

I thought these were wheel marks but after taking a photo I wonder if they're not from the crimping?

Anyhow, here's a pic of what I thought a wheel mark looks like.

GoldenEyeNumismatics

<< <i>A wheel mark will be a patch (usually curved) of freshly exposed metal--it comes from a coin getting stuck in a counter and rubbed by the counting wheel/coins that ran over it.

Jeremy >>



Instead of being a patch of freshly exposed metal, it can often be a patch of hairlines.

coinman420

this buff has one from 3 to 5 o`clock.

Johnp

Interesting pictures of the wheel marks did not know what to look for I am sure its deep in the coin and cannot be removed

19Lyds

This:



and this:



Are from the coin rolling machine and not necessarily the counting machine. A couple of different critters where one counts and then rolls the coin into paper rolls and the other simply counts the coins into a bag.

Here's mine:

edix2001

So, how much discount would there be for counting wheel damage, if it was not excessively ugly?

WoodenJefferson

Here's a 1910 Liberty that has wheel damage from a counter or crimper.

joeyuk

Not sure if this helps. Old scan. I don't own the coins now.

BECOKA

Shoot, and here I was thinking it got bagged for cartwheel luster.

Good stuff, I learned something new, I did not know they could separate this kind of damage.

crazyhounddog

Here's mine.
FOR SALE!!

yellowjacket

I'm well-schooled on "wheel marks" and there are several good examples here; however, I'm not convinced the 1945 quarter is a wheel mark. Couldn't that be from die wear? You often see the same effect on Mercury dimes. On the quarter I'm not seeing the movement of metal, only the flattening of lettering.

What do others think?
Garrow

19Lyds

On the 45 it could very well have been a bad strike on the coin but the residual black marks are not from the minting process, especially with the annealing marks inside the crossbar of the T.

Many Eisenhower Dollars exhibit these flat letters on the motto, specifically IN and TR but I would not lay that to counting wheel damage since it takes quite a bit of pressure to "crush" one of these coins. Friction damage due to a jam would also leave metal moved around so I really don't know for sure regarding the "flat" letters. I have seen Washingtons with the flat areas on the letters of LIBERTY but there does not appear to be anything really wrong with the coin.