1861-S Quarter Struck Through Hair
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Not my coin, I just ran across it and thought it was interesting,
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Very odd! Thanks for sharing Don.
I do not believe hair can hold up under those conditions
I know, right?
Maybe metal scrap?
It may not be a hair, but it was a fiber of some sort.
Very cool. Jute or hemp IMO.
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Strike thru. The "fiber" was made of metal. Neat error.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.-Albert Einstein
Good point. It doesn't seem like it would be a metal scrap either.
Maybe the fiber was planted by a mint employee. In any case, to make the impression as it shows on this Liberty seated quarter, the fiber needs to survive the extreme heat and pressure generated by the minting process. No survive, no impression results, in my opinion. Hard to believe the fiber would be made of anything other than metal.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.-Albert Einstein
Struck thru...a tapeworm?
Weird thing to say.
History shows it sold at Legend in 2020. They call it a kinky lint mark. LOL
The Struck-through was from a thread or string/fiber – not any metal,imo
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Pubic hair could..........
OK, I posted the coin last night, which was in an auction, and put in a low bid just to "watch" it, and found out today I won it. Oh well, it's an upgrade for my XF40, lol.
You're a naughty boy......well played sir!
But seriously folks, a piece of human hair caught between a hard steel die and a planchet WILL indent the planchet. The alternative would be that the hair was instantaneously expanded sideways to an infinite width. Look at all the New Orleans dollars indented by small fragments of sawdust, often still stuck into the coin. Even grease, which is by definition malleable, can indent a planchet.
I once saw a 1967 SMS Half Dollar that was struck through a small piece of curly hair twice with a bit of sideways movement between the strikes, with NO change in the shape of the foreign object between the indents. Besides proving that 1967 SMS coins were struck twice, similar to the 1968 Proof coins, this proved that a piece of hair can survive being struck without being obliterated.
The OP coin was struck through hair.
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I see those all the time on early federal issues, I was under the impression the accepted term for them is "lint mark".
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