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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;physics-fan3.14, post: 9306764, member: 19165&quot;]See, [USER=11540]@ldhair[/USER] , what did I tell you.</p><p><br /></p><p>After 3 days of nonsense, smoke blowing, and bloviating on the NGC forums, somebody got (what I believe to be) the correct answer here in less than 5 hours.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, I believe this to be an incomplete planchet punch. Read more here: <a href="https://www.error-ref.com/incomplete-punch/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.error-ref.com/incomplete-punch/" rel="nofollow">https://www.error-ref.com/incomplete-punch/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Basically, when they were punching out the planchet, they did not punch it all the way through (in this case, looks like a bit of a bounce on the punch, because it&#039;s fairly shallow). When they did punch the planchet out, that incomplete cut was left visible.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is still visible on the token (or coins that have this) because the cut is fairly deep, and the striking pressure was not able to eliminate it (the cut you see was on the planchet *before* being struck as a coin or token).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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