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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 28183, member: 112"]Polish lines - that's really quite ironic - it shows how we must adjust our way of thinking when considering coinage from this period. </p><p><br /></p><p>To most of us in this day & age - if we saw marks like that on a coin - die polish lines would be the accepted cause and rightly so. But back then - they didn't polish dies to remove wear lines as they did in later centuries.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lines like those on the coin below were there when the die was new. And as the die began to wear - the lines would diminish and eventually disappear. Examine this other example from the same period. Faint traces of the lines still remain - but they are no where near as prominent. And as you can tell - the die that struck this coin has suffered a great deal more wear.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.gdjmsp.cointalk.org/coin_pics/Misc/1382%20-%201400%20Venetian%20ducat%20obv.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.gdjmsp.cointalk.org/coin_pics/Misc/1382%20-%201400%20Venetian%20ducat%20rev.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 28183, member: 112"]Polish lines - that's really quite ironic - it shows how we must adjust our way of thinking when considering coinage from this period. To most of us in this day & age - if we saw marks like that on a coin - die polish lines would be the accepted cause and rightly so. But back then - they didn't polish dies to remove wear lines as they did in later centuries. Lines like those on the coin below were there when the die was new. And as the die began to wear - the lines would diminish and eventually disappear. Examine this other example from the same period. Faint traces of the lines still remain - but they are no where near as prominent. And as you can tell - the die that struck this coin has suffered a great deal more wear. [IMG]http://www.gdjmsp.cointalk.org/coin_pics/Misc/1382%20-%201400%20Venetian%20ducat%20obv.JPG[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.gdjmsp.cointalk.org/coin_pics/Misc/1382%20-%201400%20Venetian%20ducat%20rev.JPG[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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