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<p>[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 3029350, member: 66"]Checked it out in the book and it's not listed so this is a new previously unlisted specimen.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Partially knowing the series, and partially knowing how the early coinage was produced. Adjustment marks were made to the planchets before they were struck by dragging a file across the face of the blank. This would leave groove lines across the face heaviest around the rim usually. When the coins were struck these groove lines will be crushed in the fields but often still prominent on the higher devices. And the lines will go right up to the edges of the devices. If something scratches a coin it will tend to hit the devices and lift whatever is causing the scratch off the surface of the field before it reaches the devices, coming off the other side of the devices it will jump a short space before landing on the field again and continuing the scratch. The lines through RT show this classically, they are strong through the letters but crushed in the field. As you continue along them to where they meet the bust the line going to the four head is faint because it was mostly wiped out during the strike. The line above the cheek coming close to the corner of the eye is stronger because that is a much higher relief area and the die did not have a chance to fill completely and crush the scratch.</p><p><br /></p><p>They don't show well here, but there are also adjustment lines through the date that show the same features as to the RT, well-formed through the digits, and crushed in the fields.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 3029350, member: 66"]Checked it out in the book and it's not listed so this is a new previously unlisted specimen. Partially knowing the series, and partially knowing how the early coinage was produced. Adjustment marks were made to the planchets before they were struck by dragging a file across the face of the blank. This would leave groove lines across the face heaviest around the rim usually. When the coins were struck these groove lines will be crushed in the fields but often still prominent on the higher devices. And the lines will go right up to the edges of the devices. If something scratches a coin it will tend to hit the devices and lift whatever is causing the scratch off the surface of the field before it reaches the devices, coming off the other side of the devices it will jump a short space before landing on the field again and continuing the scratch. The lines through RT show this classically, they are strong through the letters but crushed in the field. As you continue along them to where they meet the bust the line going to the four head is faint because it was mostly wiped out during the strike. The line above the cheek coming close to the corner of the eye is stronger because that is a much higher relief area and the die did not have a chance to fill completely and crush the scratch. They don't show well here, but there are also adjustment lines through the date that show the same features as to the RT, well-formed through the digits, and crushed in the fields.[/QUOTE]
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