GTC (Guess the Characteristic)

It's a very slow day on CT so I'm going to start a new contest I'll call GTC. Hope you enjoy this and hope others Post additional GTC contests. This is GTC#1 Insider. If members like this, my next contest will be titled GTC #2 Insider. Another poster's first contest could be: GTC#1 StupidContest or whatever.

This is not an April Fool's joke.

Answer tomorrow. April 1st

 

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Scratches? I hate going first.

 

struck thru a wire or thread?


Unless it is a scratch

 

Pmd -box cutter or knife

 

Strike through a thread.

 

I'll go with staple scratch. Is the coin genuine? Seems porous.

 

I could see that if it were crawling up on the T, also, but it's not, it cuts off at the T.

 

Well, since you didn't state that the first correct answer is the winner, I'll say that it is a strikethrough.......probably thread.

Chris

 

But it crawls up all 3 of the leaves and it look to me like it ends at the T.

 

I can see a little cut into the T, now; and, there's a third, smaller, irregular cut in the field. So, OK, struck through thread, wire, whatever; now that's a possibility.

 

I stay with struck thru.

There is no evidence of the material (metal) being raise as a staple or other scratch would show.

 

You mean a scratch on the die, we meant a scratch on the coin (e.g., "PMD").

 

I can see displaced metal on the "T", seems to be a scratch, probably caused by a staple.

 

Metal boring worms, rare cousins of the wood boring worms.



I'd go with some thin piece of wire

 

I wish you would have posted a GTC #1 Marcus1959! Unfortunately, Doug's rules say only numismatic stuff so I guess "worms" does not qualify for a contest.

 

Improperly cleaned.

 

no I don't mean "You mean a scratch on the die," I meant a struck thru.

That is, something came between the die and the planchet, causing part of the die's details to not be struck

 

That is NOT a characteristic; but is has been cleaned.

 

If it was Pmd then the excess metal would be raised on the coin.

 

Gotta be struck thru.
And I agree with struck thru- wire.