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Message:: [QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 2563733, member: 1892"]There are a couple of things making me think it's a foreign object trapped inside the container. First, it's a different color than the coin itself, especially visible in the largest detail image. Second, if it were a piece of wire which got caught between die and planchet, it should be incuse on the coin, not a positive. The die would have pressed it into the planchet. Given the direction your lighting is coming from, the direction in which the feature casts a shadow proves that it's a positive on the surface of the coin. Since it's a positive, the only way for it to have been struck that way is if it were a negative on the die. Now, how could that happen? The wire - or whatever it is - would have to be stronger than the carefully-hardened steel of the die, some of the hardest steel imaginable, so that it would "win" the battle with the die and impress itself onto it. And here's the kicker: the planchet is far too weak to hold it solidly enough to be impressed into the die. There'd be nothing for the wire to "push" against. Unpossible. At least, that's what I see in the evidence presented here.[/QUOTE]