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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Get Real, post: 2527059, member: 81585&quot;]I agree with your analogy but the lines that I highlighted in the photos (except the ones that crosses near the date) are raised, not incuse. It took some time and very delicate testing to prove that even to myself. The scratches were on the die not on the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I am familiar with the plating process and yes the plating (being careful of my wording) that once was there is no longer there. My question has never been about the plating however I pointed out in several photos some &quot;Plating Separation&quot; to show that it was once there and that it wasn&#039;t sanded or grinded off. I have pointed out several times that this coin NEVER has had a rim which is why I posted so many pictures at 400x to show that there is no evidence of any tooling, sanding, grinding or polishing. Where the rim should be is dead flat and has the same surface texture that you would expect in the fields. I&#039;ve seen many forms of metal removal over my years and even something as delicate as an extremely fine polishing compound will leave scratches that can be seen under a scope. I used the term &quot;TOOLING&quot; which is a Machinist term meaning any man made device which is used to remove metal, aka; sanding, grinding, buffing, polishing, etc, etc, ect...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I would have to see that to believe it! The entire Reverse of a coin would roughly represent about 20% of the overall coin which would equal about .5 grams, way out of tolerance. The Spec&#039;s for a one Cent piece is 2.5 grams, the tolerance is +/- .1 gram. The tolerance is there to compensate for an error in a planchet that is a little to thin or a little to thick but it does not apply when the target weight is achieved.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes I&#039;ve seen thousands of them. I was only illustrating to another commenter when he asked &quot;Where did the metal go?&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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