Production error or what?

[Rasmus]

i have seen these kind of scrtch lately on 10,20,50 c coins.
is this some production error from Finnish mint or just a scratch on packing?

[Figleaf]

I have a small number of Estonian euro coins lying around here. None had anything similar. Very hard to say what caused it. Have you found it on a large number of coins? Same place and size of the scratch? If you found it on 20 and 50 cent pieces, you'd expect to find it also on the 1 euro piece if it happened at the mint. It has an intermediate diameter.

Peter

[Rasmus]

is this common for eurocoins from Finnish Mint?
I haven't seen any of such scratch in Estonian coins made in Finnish mint...

[Figleaf]

Do you know if the coins inside the roll have a similar scratch? It looks like a machine was a bit over-enthusiastic. I it just scratched the outer coins, it happened as the rolls were formed or afterwards (I note that the scratches seem to continue on the paper of the roll.) If coins inside are affected, it happened before.

My take is it happened afterwards, because otherwise, quality control would have noticed.

BTW, I just picked up a brand new 2007 Irish 10 cent with a similar "decoration". If anyone wants it please yell asap; I plan to spend it.

Peter

[Rasmus]

you are right, seems that rolls were handled harssly.
just breaked 10c roll and inside there was all coins ok.

[augsburger]

Could it be that this was done by a Russian machine? I know how much the russians and estonians like each other