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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 28183, member: 112&quot;]Polish lines - that&#039;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 &amp; 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&#039;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>

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