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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1652841, member: 112&quot;]Also, it is important to understand something else. On a finished coin you can have die polish lines and die scratch lines, and lines from harsh cleaning or wiping - all at the same time, on the same coin. This is very common. And that is also part of the reason that people tend to just lump them together and call them all die polish lines, when they are not all die polish lines at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>One more thing. Any time you scratch a coin, whether it be with a sharp object, by sliding the coin across the surface of a table or counter, or by harsh cleaning, every one of those scratches creates an incuse line in the surface of the coin. But, at the very same time every one of those scratches also causes <u>a raised line on the surface of the coin</u>, right along side the incuse line it caused. This occurs because the metal that is displaced by the scratch has to go someplace. But that metal does not leave the coin, it is instead merely pushed up into a raised line.</p><p><br /></p><p>All of this combined is what causes the misuse of the term die polish lines.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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