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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jallengomez, post: 819122, member: 19748&quot;]Dropped letters leave an incuse image on the coin.&nbsp; From what I can see from your photos the mark in question is raised.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is an interesting coin, but my inclination is to go with the others and say that it&#039;s a plating issue.&nbsp; The first few years the mint used the copper plated zinc planchets they had all sorts of problems with plating issues.&nbsp; One sees these gas bubbles and &quot;streaked plating&quot; all the time, and they sometimes bubble up in some interesting patterns.&nbsp; When those patterns happen to resemble a familiar shape, our brain does the rest and sees something that is not what it appears to be.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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