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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 2017544, member: 27832&quot;]Okay, here&#039;s what I was seeing on the &quot;bad&quot; enhanced uncirculated example. In all these images, I&#039;ve arranged the lighting to maximize the appearance of the polish lines (?), but -- well, see what you think.</p><p><br /></p><p>First, the obverse -- the polish lines visible here aren&#039;t prominent to the naked eye, but the diagonal <i>stripes</i> across the portrait definitely are. It looks like the laser scanning mechanism was glitching while applying the frost to the die.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]364436[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Next, the reverse -- I couldn&#039;t believe my eyes when I got the capsule loose and flipped it over.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]364437[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a close-up of part of the field.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]364438[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m fine with &quot;interesting textures&quot;, but this just looks like damage to me. I could drag steel wool across the field, and you wouldn&#039;t be able to tell the difference unless you used enough magnification to tell whether the &quot;hairlines&quot; are incuse or relief. (These are clearly something like polishing lines -- relief, and not crossing the devices -- but I&#039;ve never seen them looking this ugly.)</p><p><br /></p><p>For comparison, here are the obverse and reverse of the second example, again with the light arranged to <i>maximize</i> any field disturbances.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]364439[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]364440[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m <i>really</i> happy with this one. I don&#039;t know (or particularly care) if it would get a 70, but I can look at it and say, &quot;that&#039;s a beautiful coin&quot;. The first one? Not so much...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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