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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 510319, member: 16510&quot;]<b>Condor is right!</b></p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.</p><p>I have a Lincoln like that with the same sort of polishing in the ear&nbsp; I think a 1959.</p><p>Ben &quot;it ain&#039;t easy but it ain&#039;t that hard) Peters[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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