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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 791503, member: 112&quot;]You would think so - except for these 2 things.</p><p><br /></p><p>- the smaller the coin, then the more likely it is that any adjustment marks on the planchet will be wiped out by striking</p><p><br /></p><p>- because gold is softer than other metals, and thus flows better during the strike, adjustment marks were rarely found on gold coins</p><p><br /></p><p>No matter what caused them, the likelihood of the marks being in the planchet is diminished by the above.</p><p><br /></p><p>And since the striations are well known to be on the majority of C mint coins in all denominations, I think it more likely that they were caused by some kind of post mint damage. No idea what though, and there is nothing in any book that I know of that explains it. But the books do consider them to be post mint damage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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