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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2563863, member: 1892&quot;]Many potential reasons. Start with the knowledge that during WW2 (starting in 1941), Dimes were minted in quantities which dwarfed any previous US silver issue. In fact, in 1942 Philadelphia set production records for <b>every single denomination</b> to that point. They were <i>busy</i>, creating record numbers of dies, and individual dies could not have gotten the normal amount of attention. This could well be the initial preparation polishing, and the very earliest coins struck by those dies could have looked just like that. It could have been an attempt to remove the artifacts of die wear, surface striations and the like. </p><p><br /></p><p>In the case of Cascade&#039;s 1942, though, I&#039;m thinking it actually_was done to remove clashing artifacts. The polishing on both faces is at its&#039; strongest in the areas where Mercury clashes appear the strongest.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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