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<p>[QUOTE="Insider, post: 2436966, member: 24314"][USER=11540]@ldhair[/USER] Just a suggestion and not an argument: While we all know what it means to <span style="color: rgb(179, 0, 0)">wipe </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">something with a rag or across a shirt, etc. I've learned that the professional's at TPGS's and seminar instructors have applied that word (without our say) to describe <span style="color: rgb(179, 0, 0)">a shiny, often PL patch on a coin where a "wheel" of some type left a group of parallel lines INTO the coin's surface. </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">I do not claim this is a correct definition of their usage but it should convey the meaning of that word as they use it. I personally call this characteristic a "Wheel Mark." As such, IMO there are no wipes or wheel marks on the OP's coin, only some hairlines.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Now, taking your side and that of [USER=78244]@TypeCoin971793[/USER], there is an unusual patch of color in the right field. IMO, there is an extremely thin chance that something more than a few hairlines (like across "Liberty's" head) could have happened to that spot in the past. Nevertheless, it just looks like some rubbed-off gray toning only slightly more than on the other fields. </span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Insider, post: 2436966, member: 24314"][USER=11540]@ldhair[/USER] Just a suggestion and not an argument: While we all know what it means to [COLOR=rgb(179, 0, 0)]wipe [/COLOR][COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)]something with a rag or across a shirt, etc. I've learned that the professional's at TPGS's and seminar instructors have applied that word (without our say) to describe [COLOR=rgb(179, 0, 0)]a shiny, often PL patch on a coin where a "wheel" of some type left a group of parallel lines INTO the coin's surface. [/COLOR][/COLOR][COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)]I do not claim this is a correct definition of their usage but it should convey the meaning of that word as they use it. I personally call this characteristic a "Wheel Mark." As such, IMO there are no wipes or wheel marks on the OP's coin, only some hairlines.[/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)]Now, taking your side and that of [USER=78244]@TypeCoin971793[/USER], there is an unusual patch of color in the right field. IMO, there is an extremely thin chance that something more than a few hairlines (like across "Liberty's" head) could have happened to that spot in the past. Nevertheless, it just looks like some rubbed-off gray toning only slightly more than on the other fields. [/COLOR][/QUOTE]
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