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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 2023392, member: 15309&quot;]Chris &amp; Larry were both guessing what it could be.&nbsp; What do they think now?</p><p><br /></p><p>If you know that those letters don&#039;t always fill completely then you also know that they will often bear a different luster profile as well.&nbsp; You can&#039;t possibly believe that a counting machine was able to completely remove metal from the lettering without doing any damage whatsoever to the fields.&nbsp; Your persistence that what you are looking at is counting machine damage is intellectually dishonest.</p><p><br /></p><p>It took me less than a minute to find yet another example of a Mercury Dime with incomplete LIB on the obverse.&nbsp; And this time, it clearly shows the difference in luster where the strike incompleteness exists.&nbsp; Not only can it be seen in LIB but also in the WE of IGWT.&nbsp; This coin is a <a href="http://coins.ha.com/itm/mercury-dimes/dimes/1941-10c-ms68-pcgs-pcgs-population-5-0-ngc-census-1-0-mintage-175-106-560-numismedia-wsl-price-for-problem-free/a/1206-7878.s" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coins.ha.com/itm/mercury-dimes/dimes/1941-10c-ms68-pcgs-pcgs-population-5-0-ngc-census-1-0-mintage-175-106-560-numismedia-wsl-price-for-problem-free/a/1206-7878.s" rel="nofollow">1941 Mercury Dime PCGS MS68</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://dyn2.heritagestatic.com/lf?set=path%5B1%2F1%2F3%2F6%2F7%2F11367859%5D&amp;call=url%5Bfile%3Aproduct.chain%5D" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is a common feature on Mercury Dimes, not counting machine damage.&nbsp; Tell me how many I need to post before you admit that they can&#039;t all be machine damage?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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