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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1930897, member: 112&quot;]Yeah, and I noticed the captions for your pictures referring to Proof coins, and only Proof coins, and about how, if needed, they are &quot;touched up&quot; by hand. I read all the articles found here - <a href="http://www.coinnews.net/tools/search-coinnews/?cx=partner-pub-0374335159561115%3Anqgjuaeovxn&amp;cof=FORID%3A10&amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;q=die+polishing&amp;sa=Search&amp;siteurl=www.coinnews.net%2F&amp;ref=&amp;ss=6563j8989433j17" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinnews.net/tools/search-coinnews/?cx=partner-pub-0374335159561115%3Anqgjuaeovxn&amp;cof=FORID%3A10&amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;q=die+polishing&amp;sa=Search&amp;siteurl=www.coinnews.net%2F&amp;ref=&amp;ss=6563j8989433j17" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinnews.net/tools/search-coinnews/?cx=partner-pub-0374335159561115:nqgjuaeovxn&amp;cof=FORID:10&amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;q=die+polishing&amp;sa=Search&amp;siteurl=www.coinnews.net/&amp;ref=&amp;ss=6563j8989433j17</a></p><p><br /></p><p>If you&#039;ll read them all you&#039;ll find that all the die blanks are polished by machine and the special collector coins and Proofs are touched up by hand when needed. You&#039;ll also find that most of these processes are new.</p><p><br /></p><p>The old die polishing machines worked pretty much just like the machine in the video I posted. As I have reported many times before my source for this information was a copy of <i>The Numismatist</i> published by the ANA in 1915. They used the same varying grades of diamond dust paste to polish dies back in the 1800&#039;s that they use today. And it was done by a machine just like it is done today.</p><p><br /></p><p>The end result is, neither the old or the new allow die polish lines to criss-cross because of the nature of the method.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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