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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;howboutatrade, post: 1152776, member: 10387&quot;]When a plastic slide is able to scratch deep into metal, well physics laws will have to change.&nbsp; This is not wear marks, these are dug into the surface.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This would have needed to be more like concrete, or some surface that is hard enough, with significant pressure to dig into the surface of the metal.&nbsp; And I have only seen these specific scratches on Denver produced halves through the early 80&#039;s.&nbsp; And on those, it is very common. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>And it is interesting as many of these coins are full luster everywhere else, very clean (very high MS) if these three areas were not damaged.&nbsp; Almost like they were pushed through a slot/gate that was just a smidge too small prior to being rolled / packaged in mint sets.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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