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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paul M., post: 3769948, member: 73165&quot;]Whatever it is, it doesn’t go up on to the relief, so that means either: </p><ol> <li>It’s some weird form of PMD that somehow avoids the design while damaging the fields. This seems anywhere from highly unlikely to impossible.</li> <li>It’s a defect on the die.</li> <li>Or, the coin is struck on a scratched planchet.</li> </ol><p>I think it’s unlikely that a die defect would “progress” from thin, perfectly&nbsp; straight lines to more prominent, yet still perfectly straight lines. That leads me to believe it’s probably a case of some scratched planchets.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can tell definitively by whether the lines are incuse (indicating a scratched planchet), or in relief (indicating a die defect).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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