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These are the best pictures I'm able to take using my phone; one day I'll be able to buy a USB microscope. I've magnified the original photographs by 200x and highlighted the areas in question. Your thoughts are greatly appreciated. There might be some doubling in UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and LIBERTY, but I'm wanting to focus on the more obvious for now.

I totally agree after assigning some topographical color to it. Honestly, I think the entire thing was on the planchet before the strike. It's not a substance on the coin, and if it's from vise jaws - they need a new vice.

I appears that part of this was on the planchet before it was struck.

...and, is that a doubled column to the right of #4?

At first I thought it was a die break by how it starts at the rim, through the C and E, up the steps...but then it gets "flakey" looking in a large area to the right, then goes back to a solid line, and the strangest part (or, one of them) is how it "stair-steps" down below the 8th column. Eventually, it all terminates into what looks like a strike-through - as it is the only area that is lower. Maybe these magnified pictures and a different angle of lighting will help. Thank you all for your input...this is great.

Hello all. I'm fairly new to the hobby and trying to get a consensus of more knowledgeable collectors than I. In your opinions, is this a Retained Lamination Error?

Hello all. I'm fairly new to the hobby and trying to get a consensus of more knowledgeable collectors than I. In your opinions, is this a Retained Lamination Error?