Sally Ride Ghost Comet Quarter

This nonsense has popped up several times here on the CCF, and as Bobby points out, no one has ever explained the cause of this "major error".
This thread has an overlay by Coop showing that it isn't a clash: http://goccf.com/t/440280
And another: http://goccf.com/t/460072

I have one I got in change but haven't looked at it since I got a scope. I'll dig it out and post pics if you want. But as I recall, it didn't seem to be a raised or sunken feature but looked more like a finishing process.

Best way I can describe it is like a buff mark left when waxing a car.

bobby131313,
I clicked your link and it did not work. It reads no exact matches found.
John1

i stumbled across this thread while looking for something else. I read all the replies. then I googled this 'sally ride ghost comet'-thing and read the first three things that popped up:

the first hit was an ebay link, but I was more interested in just looking at the picture of the quarter (as the 'error' was circled in blue) rather than paying attention to the auction. this 'error' is unimpressive and is probably not an error.

the next hit was another ebay link, so I went to it and I see that 1 other person has this coin in a shopping cart. then, I notice the price: $1,200. (riiiight...)

after a hearty laugh, I go to the next hit, a question on reddit:

"are the sally ride ghost comet quarters worth keeping"

one reply was: "IMO no. they're just late(r) die stage flow lines."

'ghost comet'...

Sounds like a die clash to me

The term presumably originates from self-professed youtuber &/or tictok "coin experts", that have delved into numismatics for a week or two, supplying erroneous info to their equally uneducated followers. Its like the blind, leading the blind, just as we've seen w/ the.... L on the rim lincoln cents.

Exactly...If it's a ghost, how can you see it.