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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 4650847, member: 24314&quot;]Conder101, posted: &quot;I personally call them roller marks, or planchet striations (my preferred tem).&nbsp; The source of the marks on the rollers is still <i>metal on metal movement just as what causes the radial flow lines on the dies/coins</i>, that&#039;s why I called them &quot;flowlines&quot; with the quotation marks in my post.</p><p><br /></p><p>While a strip passing through rough rollers and being mostly <span style="color: #b30000">squeezed</span> may develop grooves, IMHO, that is not the same process that causes the erosion of the die steel associated with flow lines (radials).&nbsp; Therefore, I believe you should continue to use your personal terms (roller marks, striations) rather than add to possible confusion for folks like myself who may not understand quotation marks around what I consider to be a misuse of a universally used/understood term.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Trust me when I say I don&#039;t pretend to be a know-it-all.&nbsp; I cannot &quot;wag-the-dog&quot; anymore either.&nbsp; That&#039;s because times have changed.&nbsp; You see, at one time in the 1970&#039;s when everything was virtually &quot;new,&quot; we got to apply or &quot;coin&quot; new terms to all the characteristics we saw on coins - often with input from Mint employees.&nbsp; Today, there are hundreds of &quot;expert&quot; numismatists doing a job that was formerly done by two of us.&nbsp; Thus, much of the old terminology has been modified both for better and sometimes worse.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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