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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 8090629, member: 24314&quot;]ksparrow, posted: &quot;Looks like one of the Trade Dollars struck in India under British rule; <b>they were struck on screw presses</b> and there was a bit of twisting in the process which caused these &quot;drag marks,&quot; I think, so I went with &quot;radials&quot; which seems closest to me.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><b>This is what radial die erosion looks like.&nbsp; </b></p><p><br /></p><p>When I thought this was &quot;common knowledge,&quot; I posted this quiz last year on another site and I was shocked that not even professionals dealing in foreign coins knew what caused the flow lines to look as this.&nbsp; Most thought it was the way the dies were polished.&nbsp; Apparently, this characteristic has been left out of virtually every publication for decades.&nbsp; The Indian Mints were given these old presses from England and continued to use them into the 20th Century.&nbsp; This $T was struck at Bombay.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is what normal radials look like on a coin struck on a more modern press as the die gets very worn:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1406075[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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