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How was this 1980 quarter anomaly ($) created ?

emeraldATVemeraldATV Posts: 5,110 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Can't be heat damage . Look at the line, it's perfectly straight. Look at the S shape, it's even and perfect.
Could a machine create such an image using heat ? I'm guessing maybe a branding instrument ?
Any thoughts ?

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  • GreenstangGreenstang Posts: 1,491 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Your small pictures are too out of focus to see what the arrows are pointing at.
    The larger photos look like corrosion, possibly from a coin buried in acidic soil.

  • JBKJBK Posts: 16,689 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Corrosion, stains, who knows how but that's what happened.

  • OAKSTAROAKSTAR Posts: 8,600 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )

  • emeraldATVemeraldATV Posts: 5,110 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The image of the money font, being this $, is raised and clearly in view, with a little movement.
    This 1983 seems to take on an image also. Could something find its way between the alloy sheets
    before the camp fire it needs for it's strike ? A liquid or solid could react in a same way T/F ?
    Notice the embossed or negative metal area, gathering around the scar's image.

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