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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1853457, member: 112&quot;]Polishing is done in steps, starting with course dust (a wet paste) first and progressing through finer and finer until the final stage is reached.</p><p><br /></p><p>And there is/was no guarantee that they completed all of the steps with each and every die. That is why on some dies you can see courser lines than on others. Just like with every other trade sometimes the worker bees would get in a hurry for one reason or another and take shortcuts.</p><p><br /></p><p>And yes, the same process was used for both business strikes and Proofs. The only difference being that with Proofs they took additional steps using the finest polishing paste to achieve the mirror fields.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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