Could the collar have made contact somehow? It resembles reeds but the only thing I can imagine is the coin didn't eject right and it got pressed down onto the collar....? I don't know enough about the process to make an educated guess. That's a total shot in the dark.
Ok after studying more I can now see that the right side is pushed in and the left side is normal height. It makes it look like a gap but its not. Man....the light plays so many tricks on these coins when looking at them.
Do me a favor! Place your nose right against the bark of a tree and tell me how many ants are climbing up the tree. Chris
Sure. While I'm doing that, do me a favor and drive to work in first gear tomorrow. My scope is either 50X or 500X. That's it....there's NO OTHER OPTIONS. I have a tool so I use it. It doesn't make any sense not to utilize it for what I bought it for. So I'll start using only a portion of my scope when you start using only a portion of your transmission. If this was a variety coin then it would make sense to take a whole coin picture so you could look for die markers but a planchet with a crack in it would likely be unique only to one coin. You can take your smart comments on down the road, hombre.
50X is a lot of magnification. That much is going to drive you crazy looking at coins. You are going to find a lot of stuff that's hard to understand. Nice images.
You are looking for an answer using photos that cannot possibly help us. You have the advantage of being able to see the coin. We do not! Use a little common sense. Chris
