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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1147390, member: 112&quot;]Fair enough, I&#039;ve seen more than a few myself. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Well that&#039;s the thing with coins that have the mirrored fields like a Proof coin does. Take a cloth sometime and wipe it across a Proof. You&#039;ll see the hairlines in the fields plain as day, but not a mark on the devices.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I will grant you, die polish lines can usually be easily distinguished with a coin in hand. But when dealing with pictures, harsh cleaning marks look a whole lot like die polish lines. And yes, the that includes the lines being raised. Light scratches and heavy hairlines can produce raised lines. How ? Because the displaced metal has to go someplace - that place is right beside the incuse line.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is something that a lot of folks fail to realize. Die polish lines will all be raised. Harsh cleaning lines are both, raised and incuse. Not just incuse !</p><p><br /></p><p>And that is what the marks on that coin look like to me - raised and incuse.</p><p><br /></p><p>edit - Now could I be wrong ? You bet. But by the same token I could be right. All any of us have to go by are some not very good pictures.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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