Comments on: US Mint Sales: 2023 Kennedy Half Dollars Top 2.5 Million in Debut https://www.coinnews.net/2023/05/24/us-mint-sales-2023-kennedy-half-dollars-top-2-5-million-in-debut/ CoinNews delivers the latest World and US coin news Wed, 31 May 2023 23:37:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: Frankie Fontaine https://www.coinnews.net/2023/05/24/us-mint-sales-2023-kennedy-half-dollars-top-2-5-million-in-debut/#comment-522515 Wed, 31 May 2023 23:37:48 +0000 https://www.coinnews.net/?p=96461#comment-522515 Wow, what a scam. I got 2 rolls of 2023D JFKs @ Citibank….FACE

]]> By: Tom https://www.coinnews.net/2023/05/24/us-mint-sales-2023-kennedy-half-dollars-top-2-5-million-in-debut/#comment-522330 Thu, 25 May 2023 18:59:57 +0000 https://www.coinnews.net/?p=96461#comment-522330 Kaiser-
stopped by the coin show today and asked the ‘expert’ about the dollar coin I found in this year’s roll – it only had lettering on some of the edge, so it wasn’t a ‘smooth edge’ error like the Washington and Adams Dollars from years back.
The gentleman hadn’t seen this error before but did give enough info to describe what happened. He referred to it as a collar error.
The coin is punched (heads and tails) and then fed into a machine which puts the letter on. 2 collars come together to achieve this process. Somehow, only one collar was able to strike the coin I have.
trying to research this further I found the following on the internet:

Edge lettering isn’t common in coin production today; most new coins are produced with plain or reeded edges. Modern coins with this faced a few challenges. In 2007 and 2009, the Mint produced Presidential and Native American dollar coins, respectively, each with edge lettering. With the Presidential dollar coins, the edge inscriptions were applied on totally separate equipment after the circulation strikes. This is a flawed process that let thousands of error coins (with inverted, missing, or double inscriptions) pass into circulation.
The following year, Mint technicians corrected this issue by applying edge lettering with a three-piece segmented collar during striking. This tool is very similar to what producers would use several years later for the Proof 2016-W American Eagle 30th Anniversary silver dollar. Interestingly, the producers can use each collar tool to inscribe lettering on about 19,000 coins before replacing it.
https://atlantagoldandcoin.com/edge-lettering-in-u-s-coinage/
 
The minting process for Presidential Dollars struck for circulation occurs in two steps. In the first step, blanks are fed into a coining machine. This machine strikes both sides of the coin and dispenses them into a large bin. Next, coins from the bin are fed into an edge-incusing machine, which produces the edge inscriptions
https://presidentialdollarguide.com/presidential-dollar-error-coins/

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