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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2618722, member: 112&quot;]Access to the polishing machinery is a given, it&#039;s right there in the mint. And they didn&#039;t have just a random employee do the work, a die that was being sent for re-polishing was sent to the same department. But if the polishing equipment was being used, and somebody was in a hurry, yeah, then so-so repairs could easily have been undertaken manually similar to what you describe. I don&#039;t deny this, it&#039;s almost a certainty given the evidence of the coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>My point is merely this, that the manual work of trying to just get a die back into service as quickly as possible because of need, that isn&#039;t die polishing. It&#039;s more of a sanding I guess, for lack of something else to call it. </p><p><br /></p><p>Polishing by its every definition is the removal of flaws, scratches on the face of the die, that is the very purpose of die polishing. And the polishing was done by machine, not by hand. There was (and is today even) a machine that held/holds the die as well as spins the polishing disk. It can&#039;t be done manually is what I&#039;m trying to get across. A given amount of pressure must be steadily exerted, the die has to be held perfectly flat and still, otherwise the polishing is defective and fails to serve its purpose. </p><p><br /></p><p>As I said early on, I readily agree that the numismatic community has for decades referred to any and all raised lines on a coin as die polish lines. What I&#039;m trying to get across is that it isn&#039;t really the result of die polishing when the raised lines criss-cross all over the coin because quite simply dies were not polished by hand, but only by machine. When the raised lines criss-cross they should properly be called die scratches because that&#039;s what they are. They are created by repair work, not polishing. Die polishing, when done properly, removes evidence of repair work. It doesn&#039;t create it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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