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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2664961, member: 1892&quot;]I&#039;m thinking with the stars, it&#039;s like that metal never moves at all and the fields around them are metal which has flowed <i>away</i> during the strike. You gotta figure the original planchet thickness is somewhere between the thickness of the struck coin field-field and that of the thickest devices. So yeah, I&#039;m thinking it a strike artifact.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, if we visualize a finish like that on the stars as similar to &quot;mint frost,&quot; it could just as easily be a die state thing.</p><p><br /></p><p>Conclusion: We&#039;re both right. That &quot;frostyness&quot; on the stars is an &quot;early die state only&quot; strike artifact. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Experience of seeing fifteen hozillion Morgans. In this case, the color/frostyness/whatever of that area indicates original Mint finish, and that&#039;s about the very first place you&#039;d expect circulation to wear off the original finish.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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