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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DieVarietyNews, post: 1004799, member: 27410&quot;]Jody, in your two statements actually contain the answer to this riddle.</p><p><br /></p><p>To get the answer we must go back in time.&nbsp; To be more precise, back in time earlier in the production run on this particular obverse working die.</p><p><br /></p><p>The very faint line you mention is actually very faint remnants from the reverse design of the Memorial building horizontal line impacting the obverse working die in that particular area.</p><p><br /></p><p>What happened is a die clash occurred earlier in the production run. The Mint press operator stopped the press, pulled and heavy abraded (polished) the obverse die in this particular area at the lower digit &quot;1&quot; of the date.&nbsp; This dressing/polishing caused the loss of design detail on the digit &quot;1&quot; at the lower section.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, let&#039;s go forward in time to your coin.&nbsp; What you see is the very late die state (VLDS) of the same obverse die but now with extreme metal flow lines.&nbsp; This metal flow also has created additional wearing away at the exact same area of the digit &quot;1&quot; lower section that was already previously heavily abraded earlier in the production run.&nbsp; On your coin the die polishing lines are gone also due to the heavy metal flow.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is what you see on your coin.&nbsp; Your second statement would have been crucial in giving you the answer if you would have come across an earlier die state specimen in that BU roll that would have allowed you to see the prior die clash and subsequent polishing to remove some of those clash remnants.</p><p><br /></p><p>Billy[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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