I originally posted about a 1935 Buffalo Nickel with what appears to be a straight cut line across the buffalo. A couple of post suggest the first buffalo line is cause from a scratch. I checked a few of my other 1935 buffs and amazingly I found another with the exact same cut line but lighter and a little lower extending from the back side of the front leg to the tail end. If these are scratch marks, what are the odds of finding two almost identical?
If it was a problem with the die the mark would be in the exact same place, would be raised and would not be on the top of the rim, as in the second photo there. Did you get both of those coins from the same place?
It's possible it's from the 2x2 you are putting them in. They are notorious for causing straight line scratches from rubbing each other. If you use 2x2's you need to flatten (countersink) the staples you put in them to reduce the potential of scratching the coin behind it.
Scarred Buffs Did you get both of those coins from the same place?[/QUOTE] Yes ! I got them on a bid board along with 28 other 1935 Buffalo's.
If you will not the scratch runs across the center of both coins. There was a early vending machine coin mechanism tha used to check to make sure you hadn't put a washer in by dragging a pointer over the coin. If it was a washer the pointer would drop into the hole an pull it aside to the reject area. If the pressure on the pointer was too great it could create a scratch running across the center of the coin.
