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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2073543, member: 112&quot;]That is the explanation commonly given. Unfortunately, it is only partially true. Any scratch, regardless of cause, on a die or a coin, will result in a both a raised line and an incuse line. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is simple physics, not an opinion. The metal that is displaced by the scratch has to go someplace, it doesn&#039;t just disappear. And the place that it goes is a raised line right along side of the incuse line, and sometimes even 2 raised lines are formed on either side of the incuse line.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, die scratches and coin scratches can be distinguished from one another but it requires a certain knowledge and experience level to do so.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, it is common practice for the TPGs and many collectors to consider any coin that has any raised lines at all, as being a gradeable coin. And to thus classify all of the lines on the coin as being raised, and from a single source/cause, even when they are not.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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