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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 718341, member: 112&quot;]There&#039;s a couple reasons for that Bill. One, the relief on the newer coins is lower and thus the fields are exposed more to marks from stacking and rolling. Another would be the modern coin counters and sorters we have today. CoinStar machines are yet another - think about how the coins get fed from the tray into the machine, they are slid along the metal tray that is full of holes to the slot into the machine.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yet another is that the newer the coin, the more likely is for the scratches, hits, dings and marks to show up. But as the coin becomes more and more worn and the surface becomes smoother - it&#039;s not really smooth by the way, it just such a jumbled up mess of tiny scratches and hairlines all on top of one another so closely that you can&#039;t see them with the naked eye - then there are less raised ares for things to get caught on and thus scratch the surface. Instead they tend to slide right off leaving behind very faint marks.</p><p><br /></p><p>Add all of that togther and you get what you noticed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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