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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Neal, post: 3226963, member: 43872&quot;]I&#039;m no expert, but the faint striations at the top of the &quot;C&quot; on your coin make me think thread strike-through, and the shape doesn&#039;t seem quite right to me for a clashed die.&nbsp; The OP&#039;s coin could not be a strike-through unless somehow a solid R-shaped object were loose in the mechanism and landed exactly under the R on the die.&nbsp; The R doesn&#039;t seem likely to be a clashed die, since it would have to clash with another obverse die that was misaligned just so (a very highly unlikely event!), and then there would surely be other letters.&nbsp; It is unlikely anyone at the mint &quot;dropped&quot; a punch on the die, since that would make a raised, not incused, &quot;R,&quot; not to mention what would such a tool be doing there anyway.&nbsp; Again, I am not an expert, but nothing I know about the making and use of hubs and dies would explain this.&nbsp; Some expert would have to tell me what believable set of events could have happened at the mint to produce this before I would accept it as anything but intentional damage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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