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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cpm9ball, post: 866057, member: 24633&quot;]It doesn&#039;t look like a dropped element. It is probably a strikethrough like abe said. A dropped element occurs when grease and debris fill up an incused element of the die. It is compacted and becomes very hard from continually striking planchets. Eventually, it may fall out onto the face of a planchet, and when the die strikes that planchet, the dropped element is impressed into it. Sometimes, the dropped element will remain totally impressed into the coin just like a retained strikethrough, and other times it will fall out after the coin has been ejected from the coining chamber.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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