Base Ball Hall of Fame 50C Coin error???

[Bill H.]

Sorry to bother you all, and I'm sorry if I have posted this in the wrong area. I have looked and can't find other questions like this one so I posted it here.

I recently purchaced 3 BBHOF .50c coins from the mint. I just became a member to NGC and submitted them in for grading. Hopefully this will be the first of many for me.

 

Before I sent them in, I examined them with my eye loop 15 power and on 1 of the coins at about 2 oclock half way between the tip of glove and the rim I noticed a pit in the material about .010" - .013" long by .004" wide and appeared to be about .002" - .003" deep. Sorry I'm a machinist, working with these numbers is my living. Anyway, it was a pit in the material.

 

On one of the other coins it had the same kind of pit on it, only it was at about 5 oclock between glove and the rim. They both are very hard to see with the naked eye, but stand out like a sore thumb under an eye loop. To me, they almost look like a seperation of material. The 3rd one I couldn't find a flaw on it.

 

Are these classified as a mint error?

Should I have even sent those 2 in?

Should I have sent them back to the Mint?

 

I took pictures of them before I sent them off but it is really really hard to see the pits I am talking about or I would put them here.

 

Thanks for your Time.

Bill H.

[Max Spiegel]

Thanks for the question. Without seeing the coin it would not be possible to say for certain whether NGC would recognize it as a Mint Error. Generally a Mint Error must be considered "significant" for NGC to recognize it as such. If it requires a 15x loupe to see, it would probably not be considered significant.