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1966 Cent, Odd Circle On Leaf?

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 Posted 02/05/2024  1:41 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Enyaw to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I noticed this odd-looking circle on the leaf of a 1966 cent. I initially thought struck through something, but it kind of looks raised to me not incuse.
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 Posted 02/05/2024  2:16 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add cownick to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
If it is raised and in the center of the coin my first guess is concentric lathe lines . An error at the mint failure to polish the die properly. Sure looks like it is nice and round lathe work. I have some on the 1965 5 cents that are the same but expect lots of arguments.
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 Posted 02/05/2024  2:43 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coinfrog to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Can't help, but nice closeups!
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 Posted 02/05/2024  11:43 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Errers and Varietys to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Might be Lathe Lines.
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 Posted 02/06/2024  12:10 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Marv65 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Not lathe lines - lathe lines would emanate from the center of the die then move concentrically outward and would show only in the fields.
It may be a struck through coiled piece of wire or string/thread - or it just may be simply some kind of damage.
The way the shadows fill in the lines it looks incuse also.

Edited for bad spelling.
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02/06/2024 12:15 am
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 Posted 02/11/2024  01:30 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TerryT to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Crop circle. LIDAR image of Mayan site in Guatemalan jungle. Stone age circle in the Orkney Islands. Native-American sun circle. African camp with anti-lion briar-walled corral. Indecipherable Nazca image. New species of leaf fungus.
Looks like some kind of wire garbage to me. I go with retained struck-through.

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02/11/2024 01:31 am
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