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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Publius2, post: 7265733, member: 105571&quot;]I took the obverse and mirrored it and rotated it 180 degrees and then overlaid it on the reverse.&nbsp; By shifting the center of the obverse down and to the left, I was able to line up the shield lines in the obverse over the lines at the berry on the reverse while simultaneously lining up the feather tips of the right wing onto the clash marks in the reverse shield.&nbsp; Unfortunately, I cannot manage to make a jpeg file of this overlay to show you what I see due to my incompetence with the software.&nbsp;&nbsp; So, my conclusion is that the marks in the reverse shield and the parallel lines in the field left of the leg and behind the berry are clash marks from the obverse.&nbsp; For this to happen, the dies had to become misaligned.&nbsp; Maybe the collar failed or they clashed the dies without a collar during some tests.&nbsp; And then they polished/lapped out all the rest of the clash marks?</p><p><br /></p><p>I also could not find an example with the lines left of the eagle&#039;s leg.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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