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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RonSanderson, post: 7922322, member: 77413&quot;]I am late to the thread, so I will jump into the middle!</p><p><br /></p><p>On the rotated picture I can pick up some shading. Some of the lines are bright on one side and darker on the other.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1368743[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>For this reason I conclude these lines are all raised above the surface of the coin. If there were no shadow, I would have thought the light was hitting the inside of an incuse scratch. But the shadow forces me to call them raised.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, if they are raised, that means they came from incuse scratches on the die. I feel good about the theory of a sharp tool being used to remove something. But with this evidence I think it was a mint employee trying to remove something from the die. While intending to go up and down next to the design depressed into the die, the tool strayed out into the fields and created those irregular scratches.</p><p><br /></p><p>Comments welcome, but I am much less knowledgeable than [USER=24314]@Insider[/USER], so any name calling should be a lot more severe than you deal out to him![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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