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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2323439, member: 1892&quot;]Then you must have very little experience with online forums. <b>4Chan</b> is friendlier than this place. I am constantly astounded by the level of personal ferocity which is allowed here. It&#039;s unique to my experience, and I&#039;ve been moderating multiple online forums for fifteen years and have 5-figure postcounts at half a dozen.</p><p><br /></p><p>The stopper regarding the coin we&#039;re discussing is the concentration of lines at the edge of devices. <b>That can only happen at the mint</b>. Postmint scratches cannot reach the edge of device and field. The only way for those hairlines to be postmint is if they proceed over the device (for instance, the arm as illustrated by brg5658 above). And even then many of them will weaken at the junction.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not stating as fact that they&#039;re die polishing, but not much else - cleaning included - can make a coin look like that. I say that because there doesn&#039;t seem much rhyme nor reason to the lines; I could almost believe the die got accidentally scraped across something, you know?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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