Micro Characteristics Quiz #5 **ANSWERED**
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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. I will usually post the answers late the next day after the quiz 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 - That's NO FUN. If no correct answer is given by the next day, the "experts" should PLEASE respond.
Hopefully, members will follow these suggestions:
1.Anyone can guess. That's because even an incorrect guess can open further discussion as to why it is incorrect.
2.The BEST guess is in two parts:
A. What characteristic the image shows.
B. What did you see in the image that led to your guess.
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Could be tapeworm, and that's why you should never put coins in your mouth.
But seriously, I'm temporarily stumped.
Edit to add, I'm not sure as I look at it more, whether it's raised on, or cut into, the coins surface.
Charles III Album
Charles III Portrait Set
Charles IV Album
Charles IV Portrait Set
Spanish Colonial Pillar Set
Looks like a thread from a cleaning or polishing cloth.
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Struck through a portion of a spring or a wire?
What about graffiti or a counterfeiter's "signature?"
Looks to be too obvious and out in the open for it to be a counterfeiters signature.
Charles III Album
Charles III Portrait Set
Charles IV Album
Charles IV Portrait Set
Spanish Colonial Pillar Set
struck through thread
i say not graffiti as it looks as if the string brook and the fibers can be seen
Agreed.
They look like lint marks as commonly seen on Proof coins.
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Looks like a struck through thread. Or a parasitic worm preserved in amber.
Agreed with the lint Marks, coin looks like a proof
I noticed a few different thing on the surface such as bubbles, mental flow off lettering shows signs of chemical dip and the high points show rub
If the below section is a 5 and not an S then the Number looks altered or from a transfer fake coin
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Struck-through fiber of some sort.
Perhaps from heavy duty work gloves.
I can only guess from the photos that the "issue" is not cut into the field of the coin. I see it as a fine copper wire(s) that has been infused onto the surface of the coin. And bonded with heat or adhesive..
OINK
I do not qualify as expert....So, I would say that is clearly a fiber struck through....Cheers, RickO
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The thread or fiber looks like it's laying on the surface of the field rather than being a struck through although it may just be an optical illusion.
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"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
This is a "struck Thru" or "Strike Through" or Strike Thru." It is into the coin's surface. Rags are used to wipe dies so this is a fiber like impression due to the tiny offshoots. The inside of a struck thru is usually uniform and a duller color than the surface.around it. In many cases (such as sawdust or cloth) there will be a pattern of the material in the depression. The affect of this "defect" on a coin's value depends on the size, location, and what caused the mark. In many cases, either a part or the entire piece of debris will remain attached to the coin.
Here are two more, one paper scrap and one plastic:
Haha... yeah, I had to blink a couple of times to see that the "fiber" or "wire" or whatever it was actually had left an indentation in the coin! Where are my numismatic 3D glasses?!
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THANKS! Wonderful error. One of the best I've ever seen on a SE. I'm sure all of us appreciate your additional example!!!
Your welcome. Those are two different coins tho .....
@ErrorsOnCoins ....Really great examples....Thanks for showing us....Cheers, RickO
I had one of those,. but a strong course of antibiotics got rid of it.
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