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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rrdenarius, post: 4501196, member: 75525&quot;]It looks like the neck portion of the die was filled with something. It could be metal from previous coins. ( [USER=33176]@Kentucky[/USER]&nbsp; beat me to that answer by a smidge.)</p><p>I think that flow lines must be due to die wear. Metal flows when a blank is struck and metal flows from one area to another on the coin. Metal flow caused grooves that show as flow lines (at least that is my thought). The op coin has what look like flow lines in the field near the dot borders on both the obverse and reverse.</p><p>A coin that I posted recently was described as having die wear.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1116312[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1116313[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>There are features missing on my coin vs this one from CNG, below. My guess is that die wear caused some of the missing features.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1116307[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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