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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 943410, member: 112&quot;]Yeah the corner of the E is kind of there, but something is definitely going on in that spot. It&#039;s certainly not a normal corner of the letter. I could see a couple of possiblities happening. One - maybe the die was damaged by a strikethrough. But maybe that piece of the die just broke in a weird way.</p><p><br /></p><p>Imagine if you will, when the die breaks the corner of E remains but the metal underneath it goes with the piece that breaks away. This leaves the corner of the E overhanging a hole. Such a break could happen because when metal fails it fails in all sorts of weird ways. The break will follow whatever underlying cracks or weak spots there are. And if the weakest part was under the corner of the E and the metal that formed the corner was sound - yeah the piece under it could fall out.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now look at the corner of that E. There seems to be a line running across the&nbsp; corner. A line that would be there is my theory is correct. Because when the die struck that coin the corner of the E, being unsupported, would be bent back into the hole under it. But as the metal began to flow, the flowing metal filling the hole would force that corner back towards the coin. This would result in a deformed corner of the E which is exactly what we have.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now the reason I think my theory is more likely is because if the hole in the die was caused by damage to die, then whatever it was that dented the die would have pushed that corner of the E deep into the hole. Thus when the coin was struck, Charmy&#039;s coin, the corner that E would not be visible as it is now. It would just be part of the depression caused by the damage and simply show as a lump of metal like the rest of it does. This is the key to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would also submit that the edges of that raised metal are way too sharp and clean cut for it to have been formed by a strikethrough. Strikethrough holes or damage to the die almost always has much softer and rounded edges than die breaks do.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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