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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;calcol, post: 2501066, member: 77639&quot;]To get back to the coin in question, the field tooling was probably done to smooth dings and nicks.&nbsp; It was likely done with a cylindrical tool with a rounded end.&nbsp; The end was pushed into the field and used to burnish it.&nbsp; The tooling is most obvious on the obverse above Liberty&#039;s bangs and above the front of her cap.&nbsp; The post-mint engraver (I&#039;m being polite here) had to angle the tool in the area above the bangs and cap front, and created little ridges with the edge of the rounded area on the tool.&nbsp; To do it right (so to speak), he should have used a narrower tool that could have been kept perpendicular in that area.&nbsp; What a shame the coin was messed with!</p><p><br /></p><p>Cal[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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