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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Publius2, post: 7602521, member: 105571&quot;]Interesting that the marks have been fully obliterated by the legends and the rim but the remaining marks in the fields have not been flattened by the raised flats of the die.&nbsp; The marks also appear to have both raised and incuse features to them.&nbsp; All of this implies to me that the marks did not exist on the blank planchet, could not have been caused post-strike, and must have been features of the die.&nbsp; So, I would hazard that the die was damaged in some way.&nbsp; Perhaps somebody dragged a file across the die face and the scratches were not polished out?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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