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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Fugio1, post: 3329958, member: 89970&quot;]I wondered about that too.&nbsp; Under high magnification, this does appear to be a die artifact as these lines transcend directly up to and &quot;under&quot; the devices continuing on the other side.&nbsp;&nbsp; One theory is that in preparing the die, the surface was planed with some sort of abrasive.&nbsp; If this is not fully smooth, any grooves from this planing will become &quot;mushy&quot; as the die wears, similar to the mushiness that is seen in the beaded border on my coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>To confirm this theory another coin from the same die needs to be found so I searched for a die link and found this in Roma Numismatics auction #3.[ATTACH=full]882233[/ATTACH]</p><p>I believe this is an obverse die link.&nbsp;&nbsp; There are some small differences that I can&#039;t explain but the artifact extending from the hair lock into the neck pretty much cinches it.&nbsp;&nbsp; This example is an earlier die state and much of the &quot;noisy&quot; area is off flan, but as you can see, there is a very similar texture behind the head of Roma, suggesting this was an anomaly of the die.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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