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Very interesting. Hopefully more will turn up and provide solid evidence that this defect was on the die. It's easy enough to misinterpret a random V-shaped contact mark, especially now that everyone is looking for Vs along the base of Lincoln's bust.
Error coin writer and researcher.
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Interesting find. 
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Is it raised or indented? Hard to tell from that angle, the way the light is falling.
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It's difficult to say since my loop isn't too powerful, but I believe the V is goes into the coin, not raised.
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Since I've seen this coin getting some discussion going on Facebook and other forums, I'll share some more closeups that will hopefully be of help.  
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in the last image and the sideways lighting, it looks raised to me. even after I stared at it and blinked a hundred times.
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That could be an optical illusion similar to the concave face illusion. Your brain wants to see the shape as raised, which is hard to distinguish from imprinted at that tiny size.
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Could be but this is how my eye perceive it: 
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I might also add that this coin came out of a roll that came out of a box from New York, and some of the other rolls in that box contained the regular "Extra V" varieties in them.
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