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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 1029400, member: 15309&quot;]Doug,</p><p><br /></p><p>Your inability to ever consider that someone else may have a valid point really makes you appear to be a stubborn old man sometimes.&nbsp; The fact is that there are lines on these coins that appear the same as die polishing lines.&nbsp; I don&#039;t dispute that die polishing was done with zinc plates and understand completely that using that method to polish dies would eliminate the possibility that the devices would show evidence of polishing.&nbsp; Heck, the reverse of this Jefferson Nickel displays exactly what you are talking about.&nbsp; The lines stop at the edge of the lettering.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, there must me another mint process that causes these lines.&nbsp; I assumed that there was someone polishing the dies by hand with a rag that would cause the lines that are unexplained by the zinc plate polishing method.&nbsp; If you want to say that a guy is only cleaning the dies with a rag instead of polishing them, then I have to ask if there are any more hairs you would like to split.</p><p><br /></p><p>Are we required to call these lines die cleaning lines?&nbsp; Or is it easier just to lump them all in together and call them all die polishing lines despite their actual origin.&nbsp; After all, every coin I have ever seen with these types of lines on the surface was described as having die polishing lines.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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