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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kasia, post: 2939502, member: 31533&quot;]I am beginning to think these are stressed metal artifacts of some sort. They almost always appear from under a central device and radiate in basically one direction from that area. The appearance seems to be evenly spaced, yet from what I have seen of labeled feeder finger damage, the ones on this coin&nbsp; have lines that are too close together and there are too many lines. The lines also don&#039;t seem to go to an edge, which I imagine they would if it was feeder fingers.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am wondering if excessive use of some dies at perhaps the wrong setting is causing a structural failure of the die that first manifests with lines like these instead of the die breaking or shattering. Although, I guess it could be some sort of polishing, if a person is doing the polishing with a tool, would not the examples being shown recently have more variation ? And if it is polishing and it is a stationary machine the die is put in, why would it be so uniform right in the middle, as if the only polishing is being done under the device? It does not look like polishing I have seen on some coins where it looks like perhaps the die was being buffed to remove clash marks.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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