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[nightshade]

real simple it is not a lighting bolt actually it looks more like a pine tree the edges are slightly rounded at top and sharper on the bottom of indent it looks like whatever it was was stamped into the coin maybe its a dropped pine tree from a quarter i can get my hopes up cant i ?
lol

[nightshade]

i found the coin and it has 2 lighting bolt things they are right where the die cracks occur on the right of the memorial they actually look like die cracks (rather large ones) yet they are struck into the coin surface like a strike through
ill get a pic as soon as my camera stops acting up also there are several other issues with the coin

[fiddle-fart]

does thingys count as doubling

[nightshade]

no they are separate and you can see them with the naked eye

[nightshade]

here is the coin i was talking about it looks like a large die crack going over the fg to the rim yet it is in the coin and not raised like a die crack it is a 1995 p

[Dick]

Nightshade, that is a nice pair of die cracks! Those I save. They run to the top of the roof, normally, and usually only one. Other times there will be two, and I have several that also run from the tip of the base of the mwemorial building, to the rim. They are also quite common. I laso hav some with all four positions with cracks. Most of the "stress, or tension", id spread around that general area, and it has to be relisved, some way. That usually means a slight change in the devices, or the bust. The new quarters in the States Series, are famous for the crack thst starts on the high point of the bust, at the base,,and goes over to the field, then to the rim, on the left side. It also proceeds across to the right, and into the "pony-tail, and down to the rim. I have not seen one across, comp[letely, in one sweep, but I'm sure it has ocurred.
The zincolns were especially subject to this anomily in '83, right after the change in composition.
Dick

[eagames]

It starts at the pilar not the building corner, cracks most often start at the building corner.

Since it's incuse it's likely a scratch or struck through something.

[nightshade]

it is not a scratch edges are to smooth to be a scratch

[Dick]

I was under the inmpression that it was"extruded", not incuse. sorry. Incuse would indicate a "struck-thru"
Dick

[nightshade]

it is incuse there are 2 of them and they both look like die cracks but they are not also you can tell the coin has taken some kind of hit i was wondering if they might be dropped die cracks hehe
it does look like a strike through because it looks like they were pressed into the coin due to the smooth edges but what could you strike through to make something that looks like an inverted die crack.
they start out wider near the edge and become smaller as they move toward the center