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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dcarr, post: 2164266, member: 4781&quot;]Yes, die scratches are an artifact on the working die that struck the coin. The pattern of these die scratches will be unique to that die. The point that I was attempting to make is that it was stated that fine lines do not transfer due to metal flow. My example was that fine lines transfer from a die to coin even when there is a lot of metal flow. Fine lines will also transfer during the hubbing process because hubbing a die is not unlike striking a soft piece of unhardened steel with a hardened steel die.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your ballpeen hammer example is an illustration of how a surface texture can be altered by impacting or abrading it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lathe lines were fairly common on master hubs prior to about 1950. If the lines were excessive, the hub may have been &quot;worked&quot; or just scrapped. Once in a while, lathe lines would make it all the way onto struck coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another (perhaps more likely) avenue that lathe marks can get onto a coin is when a working die blank has lathe marks on it PRIOR to hubbing. When hubbed, the working die can still show the lathe marks through the hubbing. Here is a good web page which illustrates it: <a href="http://errorvariety.com/Lathe-lines/index.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://errorvariety.com/Lathe-lines/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://errorvariety.com/Lathe-lines/index.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is another example:</p><p><a href="http://www.errorvariety.com/Lathe-lines/82D50cWashLL001.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.errorvariety.com/Lathe-lines/82D50cWashLL001.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.errorvariety.com/Lathe-lines/82D50cWashLL001.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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