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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hommer, post: 2191221, member: 73266&quot;]That metal you speak of has been displaced, moved, shaped, into all details of the die. For that to have happened here, the punch to make that mark, tea bag, or whatever, would have all the same details of the coin die including the mark and earlobe. If not the metal from that crevice would move in a direction of least resistance, or up. </p><p><br /></p><p>When mint marks were punched into the dies on older coins, the metal displaced by the punch, raises around that mint mark. If that metal isn&#039;t ground or polished off, it leaves a depression around the mint mark on a struck coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>All that being said, total removal of the metal by a cutting tool could be used to make details on a coin, but from examining this coin and how deep the mark is, I believe if this was the case, copper would be showing in the crevice.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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