Here's a bit of a thrower. What did they do, just polish inside and underneath his ear and alongside his jaw? For starters, I guess I'd like to know what these lines are, and at what stage and why they were put there. They're not a typical part of the design on these 1994-Ds, I'm pretty much sure of that.
Seems I asked that question before. I think it's polishing, those would be the raised portions of the die. I await the answer.
I can see what they look like. I just didn't know they singled areas like this out for, I guess I'll call it, "spot-polishing." Guess that looks like what they did, though, huh?
They didn't. The field is the highest portion of the die, Those areas are the shallowest areas of the design and so are just slightly below the level of the field of the die. As the die is polished the field is ground down and it has been ground down below the level of those parts of the design, and the design has been ground off because it is now at the same level as the field.
I think that would be pretty hard to do w/o hitting the ear itself and the lines all go the same way. If they were circular and smaller, then maybe.
Condor is right! It's kind of hard and takes some work to get it straight in our heads, (and for me keep it there) but what was said is right. The coin is a negative (encuse) image of the coin - the inside of the ear (on this coin) was a portion of the high places on the die. The ear, and other portions (that are raised on the finished coin) were lower than the place you see polished - the polishing was on a high point of the die - being on a high point the technicians may have dropped the die or let it hit something right at that point, (the high point) and thus needed to be polished to remove the marks or dents. I have a Lincoln like that with the same sort of polishing in the ear I think a 1959. Ben "it ain't easy but it ain't that hard) Peters
