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New Member
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*** Edited by Staff to crop images. Please crop images before uploading. If you do not have software to do this you can use the free image optimizer. ***It's not the prettiest so save your "it's damaged" posts. I'm just curious what these lines could have been caused from? 
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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It's damaged, but those lines are very interesting! I wonder what caused it too.
Errers and Varietys.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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You have a reverse picture?
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New Member
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Here is the reverse as well as another angle of the obverse so you can see the depth a bit better.  
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Rest in Peace
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Definitely post-mint, possibly a jeweler or artist design start... then may be a computer generated CDC cutout, I have a bunch of these cutout coins, where bust and IGWT is left along with rim... note some lines hit lower bust and design stops, boo-boo coin?
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Looks like it was owned by a HARP player and that's his signature . Not mint damaged . 
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Moderator
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My vote is for a razor blade, metal ruler, and a steady hand.
"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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Rest in Peace
United States
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Extremely small alien landing strips 
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New Member
 United States
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It's probably worth mentioning that I know this coin had been sitting in a closet since the 60's. My grandfather passed away and I only found this in his closet last month when we went to sell the house.
So that might rule out a computer potentially doing this but at the same time the lines are so perfect that I find it hard to imagine pulling it off by hand.
Maybe it IS aliens...
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Pillar of the Community
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Quote: It's not the prettiest so save your "it's damaged" posts. first two words on the first reply... Quote: It's damaged   Sorry, just had to point that out. They are some very interesting marks for sure.
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New Member
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Okay Okay...
Is it possible there was a broken die due to the wide press on the rim.
Give me something other than it's an 1909!
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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Can only speculate to reason or the cause of the engravings. Maybe an engraver practicing with an engraving tool. I believe a hand tool in the right hands can make this pattern. The wide rim seems to be from circulation wear. Also the edge of the coin took a couple of blunt hits at sometime. Believe all ( PSD) events occurred to the coin after strike. Thanks, Doug.
Edited by Halo1st 07/06/2018 2:40 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Hmmm , these are strait lines on a round coin , and crop circles are round lines in a field with strait rows. Obviously a conspiracy!
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