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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1622898, member: 68&quot;]Planchets are covered in in small and large scratches.&nbsp; I&#039;m am told by a highly reliable source that most of these scratches are placed on the planchets by machine designed for this purpose.&nbsp; I have not yet been able to confirm this independently but the reaspon for this marking is ostensibly to make it easier for the erquipment to handle the planchets.</p><p>They increase the coefficients of friction.&nbsp; This marking is easily understood if you look at a severely off-center coin since the struck portion might be mark free while the unstruck part is heavily banged up.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The last bit of modern coins to be struck is around the periphery.&nbsp; This is why the letters and dates are often not fullt struck; they weren&#039;t in the coining chamber long enough.&nbsp; This simply often will leave the chicken scratyches arounf the edge.&nbsp; If you look on many of these</p><p>specimens you&#039;ll also see the same effect on the highest points such as the curl on the Washington quarter.&nbsp; This is the second to the last thing to fill on most specimens and quite commonly these retained planchet marks will remain.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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