crummy scan of ike with lines

moursund

You can hardly tell, but there are multiple lines across this ike, different directions, mostly long and straight.

Could these be striations in the planchet? Beats me. Sorry the scan isn't more helpful.

am

coinrookie

Are the striations as toned as the rest of the coin appears to be. Is it slabbed now? Straight striations would suggest something that occurred in the minting process rather than something that happaned as a result of storage.

supercoin

Can't really see what you're talking about, but a 72-D in particular will often have planchet striations that give the whole coin an interesting "brushed" look, though no noticeable depth to it.

If they are raised and in directions that would suggest die polishing, though I think you'd be hard-pressed to see it on a clad biz strike, assuming they even bothered to polish the dies (you can see die polish on silver biz strike Ikes though).

Or, just scratches. That's what that line that runs across the eagle wings and through the eagle head looks like... is that one of the lines you're talking about?

moursund

In the scan, you can see a line running on an incline through the eagle's head. On the coin, there are about 5-7 such lines, a couple of them are nearly vertical, and they all seem mostly "unaffected" by encountering field to device interfaces.

I do suspect they are scratches, but one in particular runs vertically across the "fingers" of the eagle's left wing (right side of coin), and even gets into a pretty darned small area of field between 2 of the feathers.

Anyway, the more I look at them, the more they look like scratches, rather than something more intersting. Maybe somebody had a really sharp staple poking up out of a holder, and somehow managed to slide this coin across it a few times. This is a B.U. coin, probably MS62 or 63 obverse, and (when I first saw it) came out of a tube with some other B.U. Ikes. Sometimes you just gotta wonder...

am