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Message:: [QUOTE="19Lyds, post: 2008013, member: 15929"]Most "Coin Books" describe the die making and coin minting processes and literally any coin book on die varieties explains it a bit better. When looking at a coin that is obviously "different" the first questions that should go through a collectors mind is "What, within the die making or minting process could have possibly caused this?" From any rudimentary standpoint, there is literally NOTHING within either process which would produce the condition of the subject coin. Nothing. When NOTHING is the answer then the only logical conclusion to be reached is damage done to the coin after the minting process. The damage done to the subject coin has been seen many times to many different coins over the years and the pictures are always followed with the "How could this have happened?" Even the OP states that it "seems to be sanded off" which is the obvious answer. Since the US Mint does not use "sanding" in any of their production processes then the coin was obviously altered after the fact. It does not take a book to understand this. And, its not a question of being "rude" as much as a question of being direct to the obvious answer.[/QUOTE]