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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RonSanderson, post: 3200080, member: 77413&quot;]<b>1947</b></p><p>Here again are two contrasting coins for this year. I think I like the first better, except for the huge tear in the planchet that marks the reverse. Since that represents the way the coin was made, I don&#039;t really mind it that much.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]827976[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>If this were a scratch made after striking, the metal that was gouged out would have been pushed around, causing a lump of displaced metal someplace. This gouge had to be created when manufacturing the planchet.</p><p><br /></p><p>A gash can&#039;t really be eradicated unless you push metal up from the bottom of the groove so the surface is evened out.&nbsp; If it is hammered by the dies it is more likely to be pinched together, but not removed.</p><p><br /></p><p>This closeup shows how marked the surface of even a high-end coin really looks. Somewhere on CoinTalk there are photos of raw planchets. They get pretty dinged up going through rolling out, punching blanks, cleaning and tumbling dry, being dumped into hoppers, and so on. There are contact marks just about everywhere except the right and left windows.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]827978[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]827977[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]827975[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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