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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cremebrule, post: 1684399, member: 35227&quot;]Thanks for all the replies so far. The crisscrossed-scratches don&#039;t necessarily indicate cleaning; (assuming that they&#039;re polish marks) it just means that a mint worker had a bit of fun on this die, lol. If you zoom in on the picture you&#039;ll notice that the scratches don&#039;t interfere with the devices&#039; frost -- you can see this most notably around the &quot;V&quot; on the reverse. Normal scratches; especially with the magnitude, would definitely leave a mark on the V as it passes over it. Polish marks (as said by everyone else) go under the devices.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another interesting thing to note is that the coin has no die breaks/cracks; another indicator of an early strike since a lot of 1883s had a form of a die crack or another.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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