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Message:: [QUOTE="leothelion, post: 3497996, member: 10198"]Work and Easter has kept me away. The 55-S has 10 to 4 oc lines and a bit of N to S out front of Lincoln, Can you see those raised lines? Your term, micro scratches? Distortion can be anything in the fields that interfere with a smooth surface. But I was trying to show that the earliest of die state struck coins have little/less luster than coins struck down the line. I also believe weakly struck coins have a more compacted strike, a harder surface than a coin with a full strike. Such coins don't receive nicks and hits as easily as a fully detailed coin IMO. The details are higher up on full strike coins, making them even more susceptible to nicks and hits. Would you agree? Just another reason why poorly struck coins grade higher more consistently than a coin with a full strike. But there are Mint State coins verses coins with "as struck" strikes. Of course, I collect the former. But I see your point on the master hubs but Lincoln cents are not my series so I don't know how they used the hub over the years. Here's a 1950-P with die polish lines both sides gives it proof-like fields, lathe lines circumference the entire obverse. And again, this coin too has warm soft luster.[ATTACH=full]926859[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]926863[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]926864[/ATTACH] Leo[/QUOTE]