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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Coinman1974, post: 856223, member: 12193&quot;]Hello again everyone, </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I have been staring at this anomaly. Trying to find a pattern, with a fellow collector. He is under the impression it is lamination, but has as much knowledge and experience in this as I do. </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I decided to take a close look at the obverse as well as the reverse, just to see if that could tell us anything. There are a few questionable areas. I looked at the coin at 4x the size to see if anything came out that was obvious. i found nothing. The pictures below I will explain, with hopes that it will lead to a conclusion. </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;Also I have added the definition of de-lamination&nbsp; for everyone to consider. However I am as clueless as everyone else. </p><p><br /></p><p>I will start with the infamous reverse. </p><p><br /></p><p>The first picture is of the &quot;S&quot; in &quot;Cents&quot; on the reverse. You can see the crack appears to go under the letter. Also it appears that the letter is incomplete along this same &quot;fault?&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The second picture shows the same feature in the left portion of the ribbon above the word &quot;CENT&quot; look at the letters in view, you can make out what appears to be a crescent from the &quot;U&quot; in united, through both the &quot;Period&quot;, and &quot;C&quot; up toward and through the ribbon, which has a &quot;crack&quot; over the &quot;fault?&quot;.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;The 3rd picture I looked at to see any discernible features. The &quot;V&quot; appears mostly intact, with few possible indentations over areas of the depressions in the field. Otherwise it looks complete.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The fourth is on the obverse, which in the neck area has an interesting mark, missing metal, depression, etc? This could even be a hieroglyphic, lol. I looked at this to see again if any discernible features could tell us anything. </p><p><br /></p><p>The last picture, again on the reverse, at about 1 o&#039;clock above the head, is of one of the stars. You can see there appears to be an indentation at the bottom of the star, over what appears to be missing metal in the field. </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;I am not sure if any of this is going to help come to a solid conclusion, though I do hope so. :thumb:</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;For future reference I will be stalking this thread for an answer to this anomaly. If any conclusion comes from this&nbsp; </p><p>I will have to retract my initial claim to a pattern. :crying:...IMHO</p><p><br /></p><p>Regards, </p><p>Stan&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>delamination</b></p><p><font size="3">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Metal missing (or nearly so) from the surface due to incomplete&nbsp; bonding in the&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; planchet.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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