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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 4845973, member: 24314&quot;]Look, some of you know how I do things.&nbsp; I like to pull the answer out.&nbsp; I asked a question.&nbsp; Thin or wide and not one answer from anyone!&nbsp; [Correction, the old man].&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>The marks are fairly wide.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also asked what could cause marks as this:</p><p><br /></p><p>messydesk, replied:&quot; The marks clearly go in one direction.&nbsp; I would use the word <b>&quot;parallel</b>&quot; to describe the relationship of the medial axes of the different blobs, but not the blobs themselves.&nbsp; They appear <b>recessed</b>, but as they are blob shaped and not striations, they wouldn&#039;t be roller marks.&nbsp; I&#039;d say they&#039;re rolled out <b>minor flaws</b> in the planchet stock that aren&#039;t severe enough to have dark inclusions, but are too significant to be struck out completely.&nbsp; Based on the full-coin picture, you&#039;d get a lot of money for this on eBay.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 102)">So, the marks are recessed INTO the coin.&nbsp; The marks are parallel.&nbsp;&nbsp; The marks <b>look like flaws</b>.</span></p><p><br /></p><p>Conder101, replied: &quot;They are on the raised features so feed finger abrasions are out.&nbsp; The lines appear to have some lines that are <b>etched</b> separated by lines that are not &quot;etched&quot;.&nbsp; The etched marks do<b> not</b> appear to be <b>flush to the surface</b>. Could be something that was <b>rolled into the surface</b> of the strip, or something has <b>selectively etched</b> the coin based on slight differences in the metal composition.&nbsp; Could also be a <b>strikethrough</b> but the linear structure would tend to indicate that if it was the material was on the planchet through the rolling process.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 102)">Now we have several comments about things that could cause this characteristic due to the fact that the marks are INTO the coin&#039;s surface:</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 102)"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 102)">1. PMD</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 102)">2. Strike Thru</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 102)">3. Planchet flaw</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 102)">4. Chemical Etch</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 102)">5. Lamination</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 102)">6. Other?</span></p><p><br /></p><p>GDJMSP, posted: r: 112&quot;]This is the part that throws me. I say that because I&#039;ve never seen marks quite like those before.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/img_4542-jpg.1169154/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Some are wider than the others, (and yes I would describe some as being <b>quite wide, unusually wide even</b>), <b>some are deeper</b> than the others, and some have different starting and ending points, some transect raised portions, others do not. There is 1 mark that transects the upper parallel mark inside the plaque, but that appears to be a reed hit.</p><p><br /></p><p>But the cause, I can&#039;t quite hazard a guess because some characteristics seem to indicate <b>post strike cause and some pre-strike cause</b> - and that all by itself doesn&#039;t jive. The coin is obviously weakly struck though as indicated by the fact that there is not a single letter visible in plaque box, and usually there is even on well worn examples. But it&#039;s also not unheard of for the plaque box to be void of any letters/text either, even on MS examples.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lastly, what&#039;s going on with the E is a scrape/<b><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0)">gouge/heavy contact mark</span></b>, and seemingly completely <b>unrelated to the parallel marks.&quot;</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 102)">There are six possibilities given.&nbsp; Which is it and why.&nbsp; This is not easy because it can resemble a few of the choices.&nbsp; Once you&#039;ve seen this characteristic on a coin, you will never forget it!&nbsp; Other images to follow after some additional replies.</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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