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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1396772, member: 112&quot;]The marks are plainly visible on the face, the shoulder, the lapel, the collar, even faintly in the hair. On the reverse they are visible on the legends, ONE CENT in particular, and faintly visible on parts of the memorial. Not sure why you don&#039;t see them.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Correct, because they are not. Die polish marks can crisscross with die scratches or flow wear marks on the dies - or with both on the same coin. But die polish marks cannot crisscross with die polish marks because die polish marks always go in the same direction.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Normally I&#039;d agree. And in this case the majority of the marks on the obv and rev do run the same direction. It is only the patch of marks at the left corner of the memorial that do not. And since those perpendicular marks are faintly visible on the O and the top set of steps, they are not die polish marks. And since they cannot be die scratches since there are so many of them and so evenly spaced, and since they cannot be flow wear because they are limited to one area only and so severe. The only conclusion I can draw is that for whatever reason somehow a piece of strip got rolled twice and in opposing directions.</p><p><br /></p><p>Doesn&#039;t seem logical I know. But when you have removed what it cannot be, whatever is left, it must be.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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