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<p>[QUOTE="CamaroDMD, post: 7918198, member: 5233"]My first thought is strike through. </p><p><br /></p><p>I'm going to call this a "defect" in my explanation. If this defect is a scratch, that would apply something was dragged across the surface of the coin (or the coin dragged across something) to create it. If that was the case, it would have moved metal and created the defect. I see missing metal...but I don't see where it went. If it was a scratch, there would be a raised lip of metal around the defect. Think of a snow plow on the road. The plow pushes the show on the bank...resulting in raised snow on the bank relative to the area around it. I don't see any metal that was pushed up on the "bank" of this defect. Therefore, I sthought strike through.</p><p><br /></p><p>On top of that, I struggle to think of a way that a scratch with this pattern could occur. It looks a lot more like a piece of "fuzz" or something that was struck into the coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="CamaroDMD, post: 7918198, member: 5233"]My first thought is strike through. I'm going to call this a "defect" in my explanation. If this defect is a scratch, that would apply something was dragged across the surface of the coin (or the coin dragged across something) to create it. If that was the case, it would have moved metal and created the defect. I see missing metal...but I don't see where it went. If it was a scratch, there would be a raised lip of metal around the defect. Think of a snow plow on the road. The plow pushes the show on the bank...resulting in raised snow on the bank relative to the area around it. I don't see any metal that was pushed up on the "bank" of this defect. Therefore, I sthought strike through. On top of that, I struggle to think of a way that a scratch with this pattern could occur. It looks a lot more like a piece of "fuzz" or something that was struck into the coin.[/QUOTE]
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