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Alaska Quarter Extra Claw?

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would this be an extra claw?

Alaska-Quarter--Extra-Claw???

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It appears to be a die chip, albeit well placed.
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Just a small die chip. That's all. Design features on coins are not a coin to coin thing. The design used to make coins comes from a single master - so having an 'extra claw' in the design of a coin is not possible unless the master engraving was changed after production started, in which case there would be millions of coins of the 'extra claw' variety.
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Die chips are common between details on coins that are as close as these claws are. Small pieces of the die are prone to breaking and falling away between what would be the depressions in the die that would become claws on a coin.
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I have 4 Alaska quarters. 3 of them have this chip. Coincidence?
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