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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 1930330, member: 15929&quot;]If you look closely, or not so closely but whatever, the lines on the obverse and reverse sides of the coin run in the same direction indicating that the damage occurred on the blanking strip itself.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pressure applied by the rollers may or may not be even across the strip and as such, these lines may not appear across the entire coins surface.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would buy into the descaling theory except for the fact that the lines appear on obverse and reverse of the coins I have seen. What are the odds of that occurring and then what are the odds that the bonding process was secure enough to not allow the coin to completely separate during the blanking, the cleaning, the annealing, and the minting?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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