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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2294018, member: 24314&quot;]Morgandude11, </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I think I know your friend who got the 64 PL from the GSA sale.&nbsp; We were just talking about that coin last week.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Think about this: &quot;It would be impossible to do any thing but speculate as to how the striations came into play, so why bother?&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This is true (But, why bother?).&nbsp; Education my friend.&nbsp; We don&#039;t know what actually caused them; however, long-time numismatists have named these striations on a coin &quot;roller marks.&quot;&nbsp; This coin is a &quot;poster child&quot; for this characteristic. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Ok, some here do not wish to say how they happened.&nbsp; What is important in this thread is to make sure any collector out here that reads about or sees a coin like this understands immediately that the striations are not damage to the coin after it was struck.&nbsp; They are 100% original &quot;relics&quot; on an Uncirculated coin that was not fully struck![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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