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Scratch or strike through?

WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • fivecentsfivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 5, 2018 12:05PM

    Looks struck thru wire.

  • FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 5,877 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Struck Thru, imo

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  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yes struck thru error

  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My gut said struck through, too, because there seems to be no "skip" between the fields and devices. Just one continuous wire-like line.

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  • sparky64sparky64 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭✭✭

    At first it looked a little stapley to me but I will side with the error experts.

    Oh, and wrong forum btw. ;)

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  • JBKJBK Posts: 15,881 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Struck through, just in case you didn't trust the opinions you already got. :D:D

  • AkbeezAkbeez Posts: 2,696 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Agreed...assuming the line is incised, not raised, hard to tell.

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  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,404 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I say strike thru. Interesting example.

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  • HemisphericalHemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Late to the strike-thru party.

  • davewesendavewesen Posts: 6,401 ✭✭✭✭✭

    part of it looks like it is under the 9, if it was a scratch it would be over the 9

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That is a strike through... no indications of a scratch...Cheers, RickO

  • CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Ditto

  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,494 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Gotta be a strike through because there's no such thing as a scratch through.

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  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thank you, everyone. Here she be:

    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • HemisphericalHemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Interesting coin and provenance @Weiss, thank you for showing it.

  • leothelyonleothelyon Posts: 8,473 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This one is raised and frosted which leads to another question but..........

    Leo

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  • HemisphericalHemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The strikethru looks like a loop of tied string with the ends sticking apart. Kind of like a string you would tie around a finger, of course it is too small. Unless an infant was working the press that day. :)

  • JBKJBK Posts: 15,881 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Weiss said:
    Thank you, everyone. Here she be:

    That's the same RTC recovery coin I have, but without the strike through, and mine is rotated in the slab. :/ Need to find an electric toothbrush.

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