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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mainebill, post: 2439461, member: 44004&quot;]Upon close examination a lot of the scratches are entirely in the fields.&nbsp; But not all. To me this looks like they took a coarse wire brush to the dies at the mint. To get some debris or metal off them. Then lightly polished or lapped them. You can really see where some of it is mint made under the right side of the eagle and under his head. There&#039;s parallel scratches that break at the devices and continue on the other side.&nbsp; I think about 75% of what you&#039;re seeing was on the dies. Larry are the lines slightly raised or hollowed? Then the coin got standard rough handling. I think with the semi proof like look of the coin some if not quite a bit was mint made. Then the coin got handled and bounced around in bags. To me this looks like a low ms. Like 61[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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