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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1019687, member: 112&quot;]The process is documented, that&#039;s how I found out about it. But you will find very few references to it. I had to search and search through many old books, old copies of <i>The Numismatist</i>, and old copies of the ANS <i>Numismatic Notes and Monographs</i> to find where the technique is documented. </p><p><br /></p><p>And Mike, I don&#039;t think those lines on the pics you posted are die polish lines.</p><p><br /></p><p>ldhair - if a die is still in the press the most that is ever done to it is that it is wiped off with a cloth or rag because that&#039;s about all that can be done to it while in the press. And while a cloth or rag may produce very fine hairlines in the surface of the die, it cannot produce anything even remotely like die polish lines. The die steel is just too hard. And those fine hairlines would be wiped out by metal flow in short order because they would be so shallow.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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