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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RonSanderson, post: 3217175, member: 77413&quot;]LOL - I thought you weren’t posting until tonight! I was looking forward to it and I am not disappointed.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Edit</b></p><p>This may be a good time to contrast the clean surfaces of your post with some that aren’t. My 55 apparently had a beat-up planchet to work with.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nickel is hard, so marks are not as easy to eradicate as with copper, silver, or gold. There are reports that the mint would strike nickel with slightly less pressure or would space the dies slightly further apart to reduce wear and tear. This further reduces the odds of eradicating planchet marks.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a 100% crop of Jefferson’s hair. The surface is a cross-hatch of marks. Again, if these were post-strike you would expect sharper edges. </p><p><br /></p><p>There’s a good reason for only looking at coins with 5x magnification - some things you just don’t need to see.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]836762[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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