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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clutchy, post: 2314573, member: 45040&quot;]I know good quality pictures is worth a thousand words in coin collecting. Even with your best intentions, representing what you are seeing is never the same as in hand. Unfortunately I do not have any really good equipment to show what Im seeing, but Im pretty sure in this case that die deterioration is not the issue here.</p><p><br /></p><p>All surfaces are extremely even and both sides of the coin match well.</p><p><br /></p><p>Early die stage examples with crisp transitions between the field and devices. No metal flow stretching or smudge dullness. I also check for die cracks, especially at the top of the shield.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know heat plans a big roll on finishes, especially when the dies are being overheated through mechanical issues. With the die face being the smallest part of the die itself, the larger area helps draw heat from the face, unless the larger area is being heated more than the face, then the heat exchange is reversed and then youre relying on only radiant cooling to cool the die faces. It wont do much good that way.</p><p><br /></p><p>I rarely see any shield cents with plating issues and the one&#039;s in question are gorgeous. It really seems to me to be a texture applied to the dies. And they are so strikingly different that I can not help but to ask about them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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