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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 970026, member: 66&quot;]An oblique cut into the metal can cause a raised line on one side of the cut.&nbsp; You will commonly see this done on coins to form a raised X and then people try to sell them as &quot;being struck from canceled dies&quot;.&nbsp; A close examination will show the underlying cut.&nbsp; Sometimes the person will gently force the edge down into the cut to make it less noticable.&nbsp;&nbsp; If you go to the heritage link posted by Marshall in post 3 and blow up the obverse image of the &quot;spike&quot; about as far as there software will let you, you can see that this is definitely a raised defect made by undercutting the surface.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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