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What happened to this Canadian 50 center?

BlackhawkBlackhawk Posts: 3,899 ✭✭✭
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I got this one yesterday. The coin has a line of holes across the hair that appear to be part of a lamination of the metal. The line extends to the rim on both sides of the holes, but the metal in the holes has not fallen out yet. I'd call it a lamination error, but can't explain why the line of removed metal is in the shape of a chain...it could be a strike through, but then why would there be metal in the holes making up the rest of the line? Any ideas on this?

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  • DCHDCH Posts: 332
    I'll guess that a piece of scrap was rolled into the strip prior to punching out the blank and part of it fell out before striking.
  • WillieBoyd2WillieBoyd2 Posts: 5,198 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I hate to say it but it looks like a bad scratch to me.
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  • DorkGirlDorkGirl Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭
    It looks like a strike through to me. Your last pic shows a tiny bit of the scrap that hasn't fallen out yet.image
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  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,438 ✭✭✭✭✭
    looks like a strike through... excellent effort with the pictures

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