I purchased this Kennedy half the other day. After I received it in the mail and examined it closer, I saw what looked like a scratch through the 6 on the date. I don't think it's struck through since the line is jagged, but I don't know enough about those errors to make the final call definitively. I guess it was small enough or hidden enough to not get a details grade. These are the best pics i can take. Thoughts?
See how it goes seamlessly between the digit and the flat area in the bottom of the 6? Usually a scratch over a design element like that will have a little gap where they meet...Plus it just looks like a small little fiber... Hard to explain haha!
Definitely struck through . . . definitely not a scratch. In addition to Matt's comment about a gap normally showing up where a scratching element leaves the surface of the coin momentarily, a scratched surface will always exhibit displaced material extruded up along the sides of the scratch, which the pictured coin does not.
I don't see the "crater effect" you would associate with a gouge or scratch, either. This strikethrough was probably caused by a small scrap of wire or cord. Here is a 2006-P Kennedy with a similar (but longer) strikethrough. Chris
