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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 798951, member: 112&quot;]Now for all the raised lines across virtually the entire reverse. I am only showing the central portion because that is where they are most visible.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now Matt, you said you thought than these were polish lines. OK, but a bit of a problem with that. At the time these were minted at the colonial mints they didn&#039;t polish the dies like they did later in the US. For one thing they didn&#039;t have the technology to do so. When they polished a used die or a rusty die they used a rag. No rag is going to cause lines like that in a die. Only an engraving tool could do that. I believe it is due to very poor workmanship and nothing else. Similar to the denticle engraving.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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