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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1310023, member: 112&quot;]Take a new coin sometime and wipe it with a cloth. You&#039;ll find hairlines in the fields easily. Now see how many you can find on the devices.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the Morgan, yeah you&#039;ll find those lines on pretty much every coin from that die marriage. But that doesn&#039;t make them die polish lines. Those lines are the result of die scratches, not die polishing.</p><p><br /></p><p>In regard to the grade issue, even though a coin is &quot;as struck&quot;, that doesn&#039;t necessarily mean that it&#039;s deserving of a gem grade. A flaw is a flaw, no matter how or when it got there.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I have no doubt that wire brushes were used on the mint floor. But they were not ever used to clean coin dies. For obvious reasons.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can believe what ya want guys, but I have presented the truth. And that&#039;s the nice thing about the truth, it remains to be the truth even when some don&#039;t believe it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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