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Message:: [QUOTE="jaceravone, post: 845321, member: 9474"]Financeman, my photoshop skills are really poor but I gave it a shot.  I tried to draw a circle around the area that you should be looking.  If you look at the body of the eagle, there appears to be a "spear" that goes through the body of the eagle.  Now, my pics aren't the best.  When I bought this coin, the plastic right over this area was badly scratched.  I tried to use plastic scratch repair and it helped out a lot, but not 100%.  So it looks kinda fuzzy on the pic, but you can still see the top part of the spear.  The coin I found looks exactly like this. This apparently is not a die break or crack, but rather a die scratch.  Some people have said this is the same thing as the speared buffalo on the 2004 nickel, but I have not seen what they are talking about so I cannot confirm nor deny that.  In the whole scheme of things, I would never have given this coin a second glance, but ever since PCGS made this part of the registry set for sacs, it has become big.  According to the pop reports published by PCGS, they have only graded around 100 of these.  I don't know about NGC or the other companies.  It is estimated that about 5000 of these were produced, but I have been having a hard time finding that info again.  I just remember reading it somewhere one day.  Hope this helps.[/QUOTE]