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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 8024190, member: 66&quot;]Same way you got cameos on the brilliant proofs from 1936 to 1972.</p><p><br /></p><p>After hardening and tempering, the dies would have an oxide layer on them.&nbsp; the dies would be cleaned in a acid bath to remove the oxide leaving a slightly etched surface.&nbsp; Then the dies would be polished.&nbsp; This polishing smoothed and polished the fields but did not get down into the devices.&nbsp; This results in a cameo contrast between the devices and the fields on the struck coins.&nbsp; But since that contrast is created by the very light surface etching in the devices, the movement of the metal during the striking rapidly &quot;polishes&quot; the surfaces inside the devices and the contrast disappears.</p><p><br /></p><p>The OP coin is not a cameo, it is not an SMS.&nbsp; It is an uncirculated coin struck from some severely worn dies showing heavy flowlining in the fields.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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