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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 7927697, member: 15309&quot;] <ol> <li>This appears to be whizzing, but it makes no sense to just disturb the metal around the devices and lettering and leave the fields undistrurbed.</li> <li>This is a common effect known as &quot;pull away&quot; toning where areas under the peripheral lettering/stars is resistant to toning and remains untoned while the rest of the coin exhibits toning.&nbsp; As a former metallurgist, I&#039;ve contemplated that the cause of this might be localized strain hardening caused by the strike pressure, but I have no plausible explanation why that would inhibit toning, other than to reduce the diffusivity rate in the area.</li> <li>That isn&#039;t a very good photo, and to me it looks simply like someone spilled a liquid in the coin that either couldn&#039;t be removed or no attempt was made to remove it.</li> </ol><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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