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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Fred Weinberg, post: 3568525, member: 86437&quot;]Just saw this thread -</p><p><br /></p><p>I think Pickn&amp;Grinin got it -</p><p><br /></p><p>It appears to be a piece of compressed</p><p>metal (a flake or two off another planchet</p><p>that fell off the die at this point, and dropped</p><p>onto this planchet just before it was struck.</p><p><br /></p><p>Notice that it&#039;s incused, which means something </p><p>positive, or raised, caused it.&nbsp; A piece of metal,</p><p>whether compressed metal/grease, or just a </p><p>piece of detached lamination, was in that area of</p><p>the die.</p><p><br /></p><p>A &#039;dropped letter&#039; type of error, imo.</p><p><br /></p><p>What is unusual about it is that the piece that</p><p>came out off the die dropped in that exact spot,</p><p>just under the lettering that matched the compressed</p><p>piece of metal....usually they drop randomly, and not</p><p>right in the same spot as the original part of the die</p><p>that had the compressed metal.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d also like to see what Mike D. says about it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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