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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2315700, member: 1892&quot;]Well, it stands to reason that a grease fill has to originate somewhere other than the die, since they didn&#039;t grease dies. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>We can assume a Mint worker didn&#039;t put it there, and as often as greasers happen, it is plainly a routine action during the minting process which makes the grease available. Every once in a while they overgreased some part, and the next time the part moved it flung a blob of grease. They grease parts in the same place, the operation action doesn&#039;t change, and it&#039;s not unreasonable to think the same action might fling the same-size piece of grease to the same spot regularly.</p><p><br /></p><p>This being the obverse die complicates things just a bit, although I seem to recall that obverses weren&#039;t always hammer dies with Lincolns.</p><p><br /></p><p>And for that matter, if the problem seems confined to 1943 Wheaties, it could have been a single very solid fill on a single die. That could be as many as maybe a quarter million identical grease fills.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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