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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2368067, member: 1892&quot;]Regarding the difference between the &quot;polished-looking&quot; and &quot;not&quot; images, I have none at the moment; the degree of damage visible in the pics where it&#039;s lit exceed any of my previous experience regarding how much damage can be hidden via photography by an order of magnitude. The sun on the obverse is the best example; it&#039;s <b>scored</b>, fer cryin&#039; out loud. In that regard, I await BigTee44 to specifically state that these images are all from the same coin (I don&#039;t doubt that) <b>at the same time</b>, because I believe they&#039;re before-and-afters. If he so states, I&#039;ll contemplate what might cause straight-up <b>gouges</b> to disappear with only lighting. Anyone who understands coin photography understands how deep those lines have to be to create the light/dark contrast between the lines and the adjacent, unmarred field.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding die polishing, I&#039;m first astonished that this requires explanation to anyone who&#039;s ever seen it before.</p><p><br /></p><p>Second, I&#039;ll suggest you grab a sanding block and a sheet of 40-grit, and sand the edge of a stainless steel table. Make every_single_line stop short of the edge - at exactly the same spot - and oh, yeah, your technique has to pass over the edge so it&#039;ll hit a second table an inch away <b>on the same stroke at exactly the same strength </b>so you can see the lines you leave are continuous.</p><p><br /></p><p>But use a table with square edges and not round ones, because that&#039;s how dies are built. They do not &quot;gradually taper&quot; into the recessed devices; it&#039;s an edge.</p><p><br /></p><p>Having contemplated that, explain how you can polish a die (or, Doug, &quot;wipe grease off a die&quot; - what&#039;d they do, stop the wiping cloth at the precise, equally-spaced point adjacent to the devices too?) without the lines at the precise edge of the devices not being at least equal in strength.</p><p><br /></p><p>Good Golly, folks. <b><i>Think</i></b>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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