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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BadThad, post: 957264, member: 17261&quot;]Since your the second person to think those are post minting scratches on the shoulder/bust area, I&#039;m going to educate.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Those are on the planchet. That area is one of the high points of the design for the Lincoln wheat series. When there&#039;s not enough strike pressure, i.e. the dies are spaced too far apart, there will be a scratchiness in that area. As a consequence of this you will also often see the O in ONE on the reverse is not fully struck. When you see Lincoln with a lot of scrathiness in that area, the top of the O will typically be very weak. It is for this very reason that the mint lowered the relief in that area on the die down the road.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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