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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1517509, member: 112&quot;]I dunno, that&#039;s really odd, especially on a Proof.</p><p><br /></p><p>Zeke says he took the coin out of a mint packaged Proof set, so whatever happened to that coin happened at the mint. It&#039;s not post strike damage.</p><p><br /></p><p>And if you look carefully at the pictures you can see that there was damage of some kind to the die itself. Look at the first picture, you can see raised bumps and lines around the main spot as well as in the fields between the main spot and the Y and up by the Y and the T. Those raised bumps and lines had to be depressions in the die for them to be raised on the coin. The raised lines (that can be best seen in the 2nd and 4th pics) almost look like short little die cracks, but I do not think they are die cracks, I think they were just damage to the die.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m wondering if perhaps there was a strikethrough on the coin struck before this one, or a couple of coins before this one, then the piece of metal or whatever it was broke apart and the pieces damaged the fields of the die in the subsequent strike, which resulted in the raised bumps and lines on this coin. And it would appear that a large piece of the strikethrough remained embedded in the die and that is what caused the large spot of damage.</p><p><br /></p><p>And I think the idea of the retained strikethrough breaking up on a previous strike and thus causing the additional damage to the fields of the die is reinforced by the raised portions inside the main circular depression. For that is where the smaller pieces that damaged the die fields would have come from.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s just a guess, but I&#039;m guessing that at least 2 and perhaps 3 or 4 coins were struck and damaged prior to this one.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s up to you of course Zeke, but seeing as how that is on a Proof, and errors on a Proof are certainly not common, if it were my coin and I had any interest in errors, I might want to have that one attributed and verified.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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