Hello ladies and gentlemen hope everybody enjoyed your Thanksgiving and everybody was safe. Now we got to look forward to Christmas. Which I have relatives over for the holidays. Only problem is they came on New Year's and stay till Christmas LOL. On the reverse, the last e in Delaware, have lines all around it and it spreads towards the North if it's not environmental I can't remember the name of this mistake. Forgive me as I have short-term memory. Those bouncing Betty's in Vietnam didn't do me no justice thank you
That is Die Deterioration. As the dies get used it isn't just the devices that take on die wear. When a planchet is struck the metal is moved from the center of the coin outward, upon repeated strikes this will start leaving radial lines in the flat surfaces of the dies.