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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2044055, member: 112&quot;]Yes, I asked that. But I asked it because I wanted to know if he actually knew if they were die polishing lines, or if he was just taking the TPGs word for it since the coin was slabbed. His answer was that he knew it because the lines were raised on the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well OK, that works, except for one thing - scratching a coin post strike also produces raised lines. So the lines being raised, in and of itself, proves nothing. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>On the dime and the quarter that Jason posted in post #21, there are raised lines and incuse lines, and more than just a few are incuse and occurred post strike. That much, at least to me, is clear in the pictures. So yes, those coins very well may be problem coins, but it would take an in hand exam to determine, for sure,if they are problem coins or not.</p><p><br /></p><p>But that aside, there is the other issue of the assigned grade. But since I do not know the assigned grade of those coins, I can&#039;t really speak to that issue regarding these specific coins. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>But in a nutshell the issue is this - coins with marks, lines, whatever, even if those lines are a result of the minting process, are not deserving of higher grades because the marks, lines, whatever are flaws. And all flaws regardless of cause are a detriment and must be accounted for in the grade.That is a basic rule of grading.</p><p><br /></p><p>And that is the problem that I have with this issue, because the TPGs completely ignore that rule. Just like they ignore post strike scratches and hairlines on a coin when there are legitimate lines from the minting process on the coin as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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