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Moderator
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"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Pillar of the Community
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I see a frogs leg or turtles head or rattle snakes tail or many other things but I think it is just a hit mark or gunk on coin.
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Bedrock of the Community
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What makes you think it's a bug?  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Looks like a bee to me. But in reality an insect would not leave a mark when a coin was being pressed.  |
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MESeiler,  It is PMD. John1  |
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looks like damage or possibly zinc rot. |
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If a bug got on a planchet or on the die, and then the coin was struck, no impression of the bug would be made. It would be squashed flat.
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Pillar of the Community
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looks like a blob of glue to me
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New Member
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Thank you for your thoughts. Yes, it is quite odd. Almost appears like a fossil would if it had been in the metal, not stamped. &  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Valued Member
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If you look close you can clearly see a small bug must've been speared mid flight from below, it must've crash landed on the coin just as it was struck and was squashed. The remaining organic matter ate away the zinc leaving the image. Of course we could speculate forever on what the conflict was over. I'd keep it  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Indeed, I see what Eric's looking at
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Pillar of the Community
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to the CCF Kinda looks like a bug.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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If an actual bug got caught in the striking chamber, it would get smushed so bad it would just look like a Struck Through Grease error. |
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to the Community! |
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