Worn Down / Struck-Through '45 S Warnick?

Since I've never seen a struck through cloth, of a 79 year old coin, I wondered why you thought this coin was something other than just worn?

to me it looks typical for an ordinary circulated 1945

@PPorro wrote


Foreword to my response: My OP was cautiously made. CCF calls itself a community. It functions like one. All communities house miscreants. If I found myself in a community devoid of all miscreants, I would leave that dull place to join a more interesting community.

Message to miscreants: There is a vast difference between the poster who asks, "Do you see what I see?" and the poster who says, "I insist that you see what I see!" My post echoes the former, contradicts the latter.

I think this is other than just worn because as I examine the obverse moving from IGWT toward the bust, I encounter a jagged line of demarcation to the right of which I detect a cross hatch patterned surface. The demarcation line I see conflicts radically with the line of the bust. I deem the area to be a phenomenon unlike the detritus that gathers around the devices of an old silver-based coin.

The line juts out from the hair line, descends and then curves up in front of J's collar giving J a ghosted goatee.

The patterned "patch" is most apparent to my eyes in the region of J's eyes and nose. It's absent from the high points: the nostril ridge and the orb of his eye but reappears in the precise texture at the bases of the inaccessible recesses of the bust left of center - canyons protected from normal abrasion, specifically the indent at the temple and the jaw joint. The temple impresses my eyes as a uniform crosshatch. I see no trace of similarity in any of the recesses right of the center of the bust or in the field between Liberty and the bust.

I mapped what I see below. The red area describes my mind's depiction of the shape of the original area. The blue areas map where I see vestigial remnants of the original strike-through.


Again, my question is simply , does anyone see what I see? I will value a "no" (issued by a studied mind) not one iota less than a "yes" (from such a mind). I deem the potential learning to be worth another chance encounter with community miscreants.

Kevin