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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ldhair, post: 1091587, member: 11540&quot;]I&#039;m years too late but wish I had imaged the coin before sending it to PCGS. I thought it would come back a 65.</p><p>I also ruled out die polish and die cleaning because of how I believe the process is done. Maybe there is a process we don&#039;t know of. I wondered if these are stretch marks on the blank, creating a difference in hardness the strike could not remove. The way the toning follows the marks got me thinking about a hardness issue. Also thought of maybe a hardness issue with the die itself at some point when being made. It&#039;s an interesting coin that I will probably never really understand.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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