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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1239973, member: 112"]The mark on the forehead is a strikethrough, but not a wire, a piece of thread from a rag. They used to use a rag to wipe off the dies and sometimes a piece of thread would stick to the die.</p><p><br /></p><p>And counterstruck is the wrong word. A coin that is counterstruck is when the coin of one country is marked (counterstruck) by another country to indicate the value of that coin in the 2nd country.</p><p><br /></p><p>I believe your coin is over-struck. That's when one country takes an existing coin and uses it as a planchet and strikes their own coin. I believe that what you're seeing on the neck are remnants of the original coin. But I can't make out what the original coin was.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1239973, member: 112"]The mark on the forehead is a strikethrough, but not a wire, a piece of thread from a rag. They used to use a rag to wipe off the dies and sometimes a piece of thread would stick to the die. And counterstruck is the wrong word. A coin that is counterstruck is when the coin of one country is marked (counterstruck) by another country to indicate the value of that coin in the 2nd country. I believe your coin is over-struck. That's when one country takes an existing coin and uses it as a planchet and strikes their own coin. I believe that what you're seeing on the neck are remnants of the original coin. But I can't make out what the original coin was.[/QUOTE]
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