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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Thelionwarrior, post: 2032620, member: 39179&quot;]The 2012 set I ordered directly from the mint so I know for sure it was not tampered with. I am not going to open these cases. I will leave them how they are. Looking at it under my cheap digital scope I have, it does not look like a piece of hair. It actually looks like a thin piece of wire or maybe even a thread. As you can tell in the picture it appears to be lying on the coin which is why you can see the shadows underneath it. Whether or not it is actually stuck to the coin or not is a mystery right now. The cool thing about it is the Johnson one has what appears to be something exactly like the other. Which leads me to believe it is something left over from the process of these coins getting packaged from the mint. I&#039;m curious as to what would leave these things behind and what it is made of. If it is in fact a thin wire then one could assume that the coin is probably damaged or flawed from this being packaged with this on it and not only it would be a mint error but you would have the culprit encased with the coin which to me is really cool. If it&#039;s a piece of thread from the mint that falls off time to time from sort of process they have, well that to me would be pretty cool. Since I found two sets like this I can only imagine there are more.... but the questions still remain. What exactly are these, how did these coins get through quality control, and how many others are there out there like these?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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