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<p>[QUOTE="wxcoin, post: 8187481, member: 74624"][ATTACH=full]1432676[/ATTACH] Scratches! I have a proof Seated Liberty Quarter that has hairlines in the fields. If the hairlines were also evident in the devices then I would have come to the conclusion that they were post mint damage from someone wiping a cloth over the coin. They weren't so I concluded that they were most likely die polish lines. I sent the coin to PCGS and they agreed and gave it a straight grade. Here's an image that I took with my smartphone. I wish the picture was better but it does show the hairlines. Note the lack of hairlines on the devices. On a die, the fields are raised so that's where you'd expect the hairlines to show up from a worker wiping a cloth over the die.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="wxcoin, post: 8187481, member: 74624"][ATTACH=full]1432676[/ATTACH] Scratches! I have a proof Seated Liberty Quarter that has hairlines in the fields. If the hairlines were also evident in the devices then I would have come to the conclusion that they were post mint damage from someone wiping a cloth over the coin. They weren't so I concluded that they were most likely die polish lines. I sent the coin to PCGS and they agreed and gave it a straight grade. Here's an image that I took with my smartphone. I wish the picture was better but it does show the hairlines. Note the lack of hairlines on the devices. On a die, the fields are raised so that's where you'd expect the hairlines to show up from a worker wiping a cloth over the die.[/QUOTE]
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