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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 286764, member: 112&quot;]When I bought the coin I could have cared less about the strike-through error - I bought it because I wanted the coin period. On older coins errors are very common. It&#039;s often hard to find coins without errors of some sort.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now as to how it happened, that&#039;s easy. Visulaize a coin die, the design is incuse in the die, a hole in other words. Now visulize a piece of string that got stuck on the die when a mint worker wiped the die off. String is flexible and soft, so when the die was used to strike the next coin, some parts of the string were depressed into the hole of the design, parts were stretched tight across the hole because now the string is trapped between the die and the planchet - it likely breaks at this point. So part of the string is now under the metal as it flowed to fill the die and part is on top of the metal. </p><p><br /></p><p>Get the idea ?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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