Numismatic Fun Quiz #4 This is much harder.
Insider2
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Sorry, no prizes 
as it takes me over a week to mail them to the winner.
I'm posting the rules NOW so you all can absorb them before the contest starts.
The Non-Contest:
I am going to be posting micrographs of anything that can be found on coins. Some will be easy and some will not. The correct answer is whatever I say it is 
but feel free to disagree (giving your reason) so all of us can discuss it. Images will be posted in this thread at my discretion - several each week. I will post the answers late the next day after it was posted.
In order to make this FUN for beginners I'll ask the "experts" to PLEASE not guess what any of the images are until the next day. Otherwise, folks like (fill in the blank) will get all of them immediately - NO FUN. If no correct answer is given by the next day, the "experts" should PLEASE respond. The answer for each image will usually be posted in the afternoon when I add another image.
The Rules:
1.Anyone can guess.
2.The BEST correct answer is in two parts. A. What characteristic the image shows. B. What are the reasons, what did you see to determine your answer.
This is harder, You are looking at a Bust Half with your 10X hand lens. What is the unusual characteristic you see in this image? What caused it?
Comments
residue around the stars left after a cleaning.
bob
Agree, but looks like may be some faint letter to the left of the image, maybe an overstrike. Hard to tell with a small pad.
Stars are pulling to the rims. The obv. die has struck up quite a few coins and this is one of signs of its age.
...that baby looks like she got left in the wax room for a couple hours
Looks like threads or fibers, possibly from whatever storage container it was in. Felt lining, cloth bag, or something similar?
(I hate your yellow photos....there, I said it).
Indeed it looks like fibers from storage...
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Stored in a leather pouch. The fibers are from the suede on the back of the leather.
Apparently THIS #4 was forgotten, and @Insider2 made a new one?
Lint debris of some sort stuck to the surface via a contamination
https://www.autismforums.com/media/albums/acrylic-colors-by-rocco.291/
Appears to be some type of material amongst the stars. Since the stars are raised this material appears to have stuck mostly to this region versus the fields.
Possible fibers from the cloth that was used to wipe/clean the coin.
Or, the old science experiment: put bread and few drops of water in a jar and stick under the kitchen sink. Come back a week or two later and look at the results under a microsope. 😁
Yup. Die erosion.
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He lost count and the first #4 is still around.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire