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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 4901369, member: 24314&quot;]<span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 51)">Experience?</span>&nbsp; That too is a rub-it-in-the-face answer from Mr. Troll. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie93" alt=":troll:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; I confess to being just a little tired <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie49" alt=":grumpy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> of all the snark around here lately and enjoy dishing it back.</p><p><br /></p><p>I thought I answered your question already.&nbsp; When there is something - any kind of mark<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255)">**</span> on a planchet, two things can happen - three things - when the planchet is struck.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255)">**</span>A mark can be damage to the planchet or something impressed into the planchet.&nbsp; Grease or moisture does not count as they can be wiped off the planchet before it is struck.</p><p><br /></p><p>1. The mark is obliterated.</p><p>2. Some of the mark is obliterated.</p><p>3. None of the mark is obliterated.</p><p><br /></p><p>In case #1, we don&#039;t know it was there.&nbsp; In cases #2 and #3 we can see it.</p><p><br /></p><p>The marks into the coin under the chin and the marks on the chin are &quot;clean.&quot;&nbsp; There is no evidence of what made them left on the coin.&nbsp; We only see the results.&nbsp; When you examine any type of planchet defect that is &quot;clean&quot; under high (my images) magnification, the inside of the mark is similar in color to the unstruck surface of the original planchet because the die did not touch that part of the planchet.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s how I know (<span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 51)">experience</span>) the two types of marks in this <font size="6"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0)"><b><u>QUIZ</u></b><font size="4"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> were on the original planchet, NOT PMD, and not obliterated from the strike.&nbsp; </span></font></span></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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