Wire Strike-Through? UPDATE PICS

joeykoins

Hi guy's. Found this 1995d Cent. The mark isn't concave, it convex. Some sort of strike through? Thanks.





Acetone wash in the future.

TurtleCat

Looks raised above the surface. If so, no. It would probably be a die scratch or something.

joeykoins

@TurtleCat said:
Looks raised above the surface. If so, no. It would probably be a die scratch or something.

Thanks for the reply. If it's a scratch, wouldn't not be above surface, in which it is?
The mark looks as raised as the letter "I" next to it.

TurtleCat

@joeykoins said:

@TurtleCat said:
Looks raised above the surface. If so, no. It would probably be a die scratch or something.

Thanks for the reply. If it's a scratch, wouldn't not be above surface, in which it is?
The mark looks as raised as the letter "I" next to it.

Right, a die scratch would be a big scratch on the die. It would be like the letters or design and sunk into the die. So when the die hits a coin the scratch on the die would be raised on the coin like the letters or design.

Think of a die crack. Same principle. But this would be a gouge instead of a die crumbling. If this is a gouge/scratch on the die as I’d suspect.

Oldhoopster

Could also be a plating blister and/or underlying zinc rot. Definitely not a strike through

Jimnight

Yep ... I would lean toward a platting blister.

joeykoins

@TurtleCat said:
Right, a die scratch would be a big scratch on the die. It would be like the letters or design and sunk into the die. So when the die hits a coin the scratch on the die would be raised on the coin like the letters or design.

Wow, did not know this, thanks!
Not home right now, I have to get a closer pic with my scope.

ms70

I'd see if it flakes off with the edge of a credit card or something similar. If you don't care about the coin that is.

pursuitofliberty

It could be a die scratch as @TurtleCat posed. Remember, die scratches are raised on the struck coin ... however ...

... if it really is part of the coin (not something stuck to the surface) I think it's some kind of foreign object that was on the coin when it got plated. Since the new Lincoln Cents are plated, it's easy to see that kind of situation happening (although frankly, I had never seen anything that made me think of it like that before your picture).

JBK

Most likely a plating blister. Next up is die gouge.

Cannot possibly be a struckthru. You need to visualize what happens with a struckthru. A foreign object is laying on the planchet and is struck down into the surface.

How could the rest of the detail on the obverse be struck if the die never made contact with the surface? That raised line would need to be carved into the die if it is struck up like that. (But it is likely not that but instead a plating issue.

joeykoins

Close up shots;

Oldhoopster

Nice close ups of a plating blister

Jimnight

Excellent pictures of a plating blister.

joeykoins

Ok, thank you all!

ricko

Great pictures.... Use a rose thorn to probe it.... if it 'moves' or punctures, it is a plating blister, if not, a die gouge. Cheers, RickO