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 tiggerlillyNew Member
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Hi,
I have come across this 1942D with the split 2. I don't know what to label it. There are no entries that are comparable that I have found... Any ideas?[img]  
thanks
Judy[/img]
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 coopExpert Member
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| Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 4:56 pm |
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Looks like a bag mark. Not the other bag marks on the fields, it is one that hit the 2 in the date.
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tiggerlillyNew Member
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| Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 5:09 pm |
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what is a bag mark? and how does it split the two like that?
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 eagamesExpert Member
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| Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 5:43 pm |
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| what is a bag mark? |
If you put a bunch of change in a bag or jar and a coins edge hits another coin that makes a mark like that. They call them bag marks because in the past they kept coins in canvas bags. Up to about 1999 the mints shipped all coins in the canvas bags and banks still use them today.
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| how does it split the two like that? |
Imagine a brinks truck picking up bags of change and the driver tosses the heavy canvas sacks into the truck and the coins all mark eachother. If one coins rim is against the date of another coin it gets a split mark like that.
Also in the "good old days" cassinos had penny machines. When you win the machine pours out a stream of coins "clang clang clang" as the coins beat eachother up.
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 coppercoinsSite Admin
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| Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 9:42 pm |
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Canvas bags of cents were shipped by the mint up to and including 2001. The ballistic bags started in 2002.
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