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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;iPen, post: 2556570, member: 69760&quot;]Here&#039;s my 1947 Mexico 5 Pesos coin. I bought it because it had a nice semi-cameo appearance and it definitely has a nice beaming cartwheel luster all the way around on both sides of the coin. However, there are these parallel scratches running across, most visibly on the reverse of the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>At first glance, I thought they were hairline scratches, but upon closer inspection with a loupe, I&#039;m wondering if they&#039;re die scratches instead. Specifically, on the reverse, there&#039;s a thick line that runs between the cactus and the snake on the fields, and past the snakes head heading NW. In other words, the snake head device seems to be on top of the scratch, as if it&#039;s a die scratch. I&#039;m wondering if that&#039;s what&#039;s going on with a lot of these other parallel line scratches. There&#039;s also a second long line running from the &quot;T&quot; in &quot;ESTADOS&quot; to &quot;beneath&quot; the cactus devices, shown in the first pic. Am I seeing that correctly? Or, are they hairline scratches - to put it another way, would, say, NGC grade it as problem-free?</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks in advance!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]550438[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1228.photobucket.com/albums/ee451/kovacs22/P1090371_zpsbulk6nlj.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i1228.photobucket.com/albums/ee451/kovacs22/P1090372_zps73ftwvpg.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i1228.photobucket.com/albums/ee451/kovacs22/P1090373_zpsap444pm4.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i1228.photobucket.com/albums/ee451/kovacs22/P1090374_zpsfhn8nmwp.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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