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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 4102764, member: 112&quot;]I gotta disagree with other comments, it looks like it was struck through a piece of string to me. The way you can tell for sure, in hand as you can&#039;t with pics, is to look closely at the line. If it&#039;s shaped like a half a tube, U shaped, it&#039;s almost certainly struck through string. If it&#039;s V shaped, it isn&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p>And struck through string isn&#039;t really common but it happens, it&#039;s happened for hundreds of years. How and why ? Because when a die gets dirty with grease, debris, whatever, the mint employee wipes the die off with a rag, and sometimes a piece of string from the rag gets left behind, stuck to the die. That simple but effective method has been in use for as long as coins have been being minted. As an example, take a look at this coin. It has exactly the same characteristics that quarter does. Only on this one there was more than just 1 piece of string.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1066309[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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