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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;physics-fan3.14, post: 3271668, member: 19165&quot;]Wow. There is a whole lot going on there. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve seen the Ike&#039;s with roller lines, as Larry shows. A similar effect can often be seen on Morgans. These roller lines obviously hurt the eye appeal, and will often hurt the grade (a well struck coin should have obliterated the lines). </p><p><br /></p><p>Roller lines usually aren&#039;t as prominent as the coin you show, however. They are usually kinda subtle on the Ikes. I&#039;m going to assume that the diagonal parallel lines are the roller lines. </p><p><br /></p><p>That leaves at least two sets of lines left. One of these is the set of semi-circular concave up lines that cover the face of the coin. I&#039;m assuming these are the lines that you are calling die polish. The problem with that is.... the die polish lines are uniform across the face of the coin. There is little or no interruption across the devices. I would expect that die polish lines primarily appear in the fields. If they appear on the devices as well, that leads me to believe that they are not die polish, they are actually hairlines from cleaning. </p><p><br /></p><p>The third set of lines are most evident in your first picture, at cross angles to the roller lines. These appear to be clearly cleaning lines. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d say that this coin has been very harshly cleaned, more than once. It has been polished to death. The colors you see are weird effects from its reactions with the environment after it&#039;s been subjected to a bunch of weird chemicals. </p><p><br /></p><p>Avoid this coin at all costs. Don&#039;t even try to buy it. It is worth a dollar, if you can find a store that will take it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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