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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 913037, member: 112&quot;]Or - those are not the result of cleaning a die with a wire brush, but instead the result of flow lines from very worn die.</p><p><br /></p><p>Personally, I have never heard of a wire brush being used to clean a die. Nor can I imagine that anyone would do so precisely because of the resulting damage to the die. Mint workers tended to be very careful with coin dies because of the expense of making them. </p><p><br /></p><p>If the marks on rlm&#039;s coin were on the rest of the devices instead of just on the edges of the devices then I could agree that they were the result of flow lines.</p><p><br /></p><p>But since they only appear on the edges of the devices, I think my idea of the coin being whizzed a long time ago and then toning afterwards and wiping out traces of the whizzing in the fields is much more likely.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I freely admit, I can&#039;t prove it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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