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Struck Through Grease Or PMD?

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Struck-Through-Grease-Or-PMD?

Picked this up today while sorting through dimes at the dealer. It's an old, worn dime, so it may be tough to tell, but it looked to me like it was Struck Through Grease.

Then I got it home and used some acetone and xylol (xylene? I always get them mixed up) to clean off some of the crud. Now it looks like maybe a pair of pliers could have created that imprint.

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Is the coin bent into a dome shape? It looks like it in the pics because of IGWT. If it is, its probably PMD.
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no, no bend. But I agree that In God We Trust does look a little odd.
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If pliers did that there would be a matching mark on the obverse, there is not. Also that looks raised to me. Is it? If so, that points to mint error. Thats what it looks like to me.
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yes, it appears raised. After cleaning it, my initial thought was someone took a stack of dimes and crimped them in a pair of pliers -- hence the marks on one side only.

However, the lack of detail on "URIBUS" and the lines that are in the deep spots of the design make me think this may have happened during minting.
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