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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 7716559, member: 24314&quot;]<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie93" alt=":troll:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; Well it didn&#039;t work.&nbsp; Good Morning.&nbsp; It is a bad day when I come to coin talk and get no alerts. I expected to get a good discussion going and raise the old <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie26" alt=":bookworm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> guy from the dead. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I do not teach that scratches appear as raised lines on a coin for the simple reason that <b><span style="color: #ff0000">98% of the time they don&#039;t appear as raised lines </span></b>that you can see.&nbsp; That&#039;s why I used the commonly seen deep angular &amp; intentional scratch (fake cancelled die) that DOES APPEAR raised.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Now. If we look at a hairline at 400X it will have raised sides.&nbsp; If wee look at a scratch at 100+X it will have raised sides.&nbsp; Add a slight amount of circulation and the &quot;sides&quot; are gone.&nbsp; Large deep scratched will have raised sides until they are worn down but there is no way a person with knowledge will mistake one of these marks for die polish!</p><p><br /></p><p>One hint:&nbsp; Very often the end of a scratch will have a raised &quot;burr&quot; at the furthest tip from where it started from &quot;displaced metal&quot; that is visible.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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