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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RonSanderson, post: 3601272, member: 77413&quot;]Based on the explanation Chris linked to, this must be the area of hairlines that they judged to be a wheel mark. They point out that the effect is subtle and generally visible only from one lighting angle.</p><p><br /></p><p>As with any coin, the collector has to decide how much any particular flaw matters.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have to say, I simply do not care about this one. It&#039;s hard for me to get worked up about this compared to the obvious die wear on the back and the smearing of the letters ATES and ICA. For that matter, I have seen hairlining from die scratches that exceeds this, but it passes muster just because the mint did it, not a coin counter.</p><p><br /></p><p>I actually think these might be from die polishing. The lines appear to dive under Lincoln&#039;s nose and chin and (almost) disappear. If they were from contact with a coin counter, the higher profile of his face should be more scratched than the fields. Yet, there are few visible scratches on Lincoln, indicating that the scratches were made to the die, where the fields are the high points and the face is in a depression.</p><p><br /></p><p>Without the discovery of this set of parallel hairlines the coin would be an easy 65 and likely a 66.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]963730[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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