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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3116033, member: 112"]If you blow the picture up I don't think it leaves any doubt that it is raised. And if you look at what the normal coin is supposed to look like - </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/K5YAAOSwbDZaxDZs/s-l1600.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Well, it becomes difficult to even imagine what could have caused the die to become marked like that. About the only thing I can think of is that something quite hard fell on the die during a previous strike which was indeed a strike-though, resulting in a depression in the die during that previous strike, and whatever it was was then dislodged from the die, probably from it becoming a retained strike-through. And that subsequent strikes had the raised image we see on the OP's coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3116033, member: 112"]If you blow the picture up I don't think it leaves any doubt that it is raised. And if you look at what the normal coin is supposed to look like - [IMG]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/K5YAAOSwbDZaxDZs/s-l1600.jpg[/IMG] Well, it becomes difficult to even imagine what could have caused the die to become marked like that. About the only thing I can think of is that something quite hard fell on the die during a previous strike which was indeed a strike-though, resulting in a depression in the die during that previous strike, and whatever it was was then dislodged from the die, probably from it becoming a retained strike-through. And that subsequent strikes had the raised image we see on the OP's coin.[/QUOTE]
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