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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hobo, post: 1378319, member: 11521&quot;]Pretty much. </p><p><br /></p><p>Suppose a counterfeiter selects as his host coin a Morgan Dollar with a bag mark in the field. The bag mark (naturally) is a mark that is incuse into the coin. When he makes his transfer die it picks up the bag mark. This mark will be raised on the die. When the die strikes a coin the struck counterfeit coin will have a depression which corresponds to the bag mark on the host coin. The depression will appear on every coin struck by that die. (That is why it is called a &quot;repeating depression&quot;.) The depression will have luster because metal flowed across the die when it was struck. (A bag mark or other mark on a genuine coin will not have luster; instead it will show fresh metal when the surface of the coin was damaged.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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