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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clawcoins, post: 3350346, member: 77814&quot;]YES</p><p>EXACTLY !!</p><p><br /></p><p>read up on it ...</p><p><a href="https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-coins/2013/10/die-wear-can-render-coins-letters-illegible-o.all.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-coins/2013/10/die-wear-can-render-coins-letters-illegible-o.all.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-coins/2013/10/die-wear-can-render-coins-letters-illegible-o.all.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-coins/2011/03/form-of-raised-doubling-may-represent-plating.all.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-coins/2011/03/form-of-raised-doubling-may-represent-plating.all.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-coins/2011/03/form-of-raised-doubling-may-represent-plating.all.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>if you google &quot;Ridge Ring&quot; and &quot;Die Deterioration&quot; .. you&#039;ll get plenty of reading material on it with pictures that look exactly the same.</p><p><br /></p><p>..</p><p>As a die pounds away at hundreds of thousands of planchets, the working face undergoes slow deformation that is referred to as die wear or die deterioration. Formerly crisp numbers and letters frequently become bloated and irregular,</p><p>..</p><p>&nbsp;The letters of IN GOD WE TRUST have been partly swallowed up by a “ridge ring” — a swelling that formed just inside and parallel to the design rim. Zinc cents are prone to develop such swellings. Other, broader swellings may form within the interior of the coin. A close relationship exists between such swellings and the thinning and disappearance of peripheral letters.</p><p>...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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