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<p>[QUOTE="Scuba4fun777, post: 7563984, member: 75199"]The resolution on your photos isn’t fine enough to say with 100% certainty, but I’m going with about 98% that it is indeed a PMD scratch. </p><p>If it truly were the result of a die crack, the line would be raised up from the surface of the coin, not scratched into it - as the photos appear to show. And, as Sal mentioned, dis cracks are very rarely straight lines. </p><p>The scratch was most likely caused by a coin feeder. It appears that the spring action of something like a feeder arm kept the pressure constant across the fields and reliefs, creating a line with consistent depth. </p><p>Even though the coin is only worth face value, you did notice that this is indentation is indeed different from most of the other scratches you’ve encountered. Congratulations and keep up the hunt![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Scuba4fun777, post: 7563984, member: 75199"]The resolution on your photos isn’t fine enough to say with 100% certainty, but I’m going with about 98% that it is indeed a PMD scratch. If it truly were the result of a die crack, the line would be raised up from the surface of the coin, not scratched into it - as the photos appear to show. And, as Sal mentioned, dis cracks are very rarely straight lines. The scratch was most likely caused by a coin feeder. It appears that the spring action of something like a feeder arm kept the pressure constant across the fields and reliefs, creating a line with consistent depth. Even though the coin is only worth face value, you did notice that this is indentation is indeed different from most of the other scratches you’ve encountered. Congratulations and keep up the hunt![/QUOTE]
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