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<p>[QUOTE="Insider, post: 2439484, member: 24314"]<span style="color: #b35900">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. <span style="color: #00b300">I disagree completely with this statement. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie14" alt=":angelic:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #b35900"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #b3b300">I think about 75% of what you're seeing was on the dies. <span style="color: #0080ff">I disagree completely with this statement also. Although there is very fine die polish lines on this coin, 95% of the "chatter marks" on this coin are due to POST MINT impact. As the dealer wrote in Post #10, very often coins are all marked up on purpose to hide something this <span style="color: #b30000">is not one of those cases. </span></span></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #b3b300"><span style="color: #0080ff"><span style="color: #b30000"><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie10" alt=":oops:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie80" alt=":shame:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie46" alt=":facepalm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> <span style="color: #000000">Forgot, this is all just IMO.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #b30000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #b30000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0080ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0080ff"></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Insider, post: 2439484, member: 24314"][COLOR=#b35900]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. [COLOR=#00b300]I disagree completely with this statement. :angelic:[/COLOR] [/COLOR] [COLOR=#b3b300]I think about 75% of what you're seeing was on the dies. [COLOR=#0080ff]I disagree completely with this statement also. Although there is very fine die polish lines on this coin, 95% of the "chatter marks" on this coin are due to POST MINT impact. As the dealer wrote in Post #10, very often coins are all marked up on purpose to hide something this [COLOR=#b30000]is not one of those cases. [/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=#b3b300][COLOR=#0080ff][COLOR=#b30000][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=#b3b300][COLOR=#0080ff][COLOR=#b30000]:oops::shame::facepalm: [COLOR=#000000]Forgot, this is all just IMO.[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=#b30000] [/COLOR] [COLOR=#0080ff] [/COLOR][/QUOTE]
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