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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collector1966, post: 1240784, member: 17919&quot;]As a &quot;machinist with a degree in physics&quot;, you should be aware that the technology for shaving coins and smoothing them to a nice finish has existed for at least 160 years. It was popular in the latter half of the 1800s, for example, to make &quot;love tokens&quot; which consisted of circulation coins that were shaved or planed on one side to give them a smooth finish, then engraved with some sort of design and/or message. You should look at some of these love tokens and examine the degree to which they were shaved. Some of them kept their rims, while the rims of others were shaved off. Some were smoothed so well that it is difficult to see that it was post-mint damage.&nbsp; And if the technology for doing that professionally existed in the 1800s, it stands to reason that the technology exists today as well, and has almost certainly been improved in the meantime.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.kenbarr.com/morelove.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.kenbarr.com/morelove.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.kenbarr.com/morelove.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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