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SkyManSkyMan Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭✭✭
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So, do you like them, dislike them or are you neutral about them?
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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Please define lint marks. Cheers, RickO
  • sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
    Lint marks are necessary if you wish to identify the facility at which the coin was linted.
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,805 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Those folks that like lint marks, please explain why. As far as I'm concerned, they are a manufacturing defect and an indication of poor quality control at the mint.

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  • sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
    Actually, I don't know what lint marks are. Could we have a definition?
  • seemyauctionseemyauction Posts: 3,655 ✭
    Lint Marks

    Proof dies and planchets were usually polished with soft cloths. Occasionally, pieces of lint would adhere to the die or planchet prior to the striking process. Therefore, lint marks are fairly common on proof coins, yet rare on business strikes
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  • sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
    Thank you. Can you, or someone, post some pics of lint marks?
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,805 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Lint marks will keep an otherwise perfect coin from getting a 70 at the top tier slabbing companies.

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  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,284 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I dislike them when they're strike-thrus (e.g. on proofs), but I like them when they're in the die. There are a handful of Morgan dollars that have raised, lint-shaped marks on them that are referred to as "cooties." Presumably, some sort of lint (or wire) got between the hub and the die when the die was made. 1879 is probably the best year for these, but there are a few others.
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  • CgbCgb Posts: 710 ✭


    << <i>Lint marks are necessary if you wish to identify the facility at which the coin was linted. >>



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  • seemyauctionseemyauction Posts: 3,655 ✭
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  • bushmaster8bushmaster8 Posts: 5,616 ✭
    What's to like? Except when the lint is retained...but then it becomes a horse of a different color (retained strike-thru's are very cool!).
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  • SkyManSkyMan Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Thank you. Can you, or someone, post some pics of lint marks? >>



    Here's a relatively benign one on a '58-P that I own. Look at the upper bell lines...

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    Here's one that is over the top IMO (look near Liberty's foot in the blowup picture)...

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  • 57loaded57loaded Posts: 4,967 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Lint marks will keep an otherwise perfect coin from getting a 70 at the top tier slabbing companies. >>



    maybe NGC will allow a few for a 70 where PCGS...nada?
  • CameonutCameonut Posts: 7,362 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I don't really care for them, but they do show up alot on cameo and deep cameo proofs. This coin has a struck thru lint mark just above the date. That location easily cost the coin one point in grade - maybe more.
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  • commoncents05commoncents05 Posts: 10,096 ✭✭✭
    Well, you learn something everyday. I found a "Lint Mark" on my 1938 Proof Lincoln the other day, but, not knowing what it was, I thought it was just a strike through. Bad pics, but you can see it above the date, kinda looks like an upside down U.

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  • fcloudfcloud Posts: 12,133 ✭✭✭✭
    This subject is too fuzzy for me.

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  • mozinmozin Posts: 8,755 ✭✭✭
    Can you find the strike through lint? Is it at the center of the obverse? Wow, look at that worm the eagle wants to snatch!image


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    I don't much like lint marks. It seems specimens with lint marks generally bring a littles less money.
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  • sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
    Thank you for the pics. I learned quite a bit.
  • RWBRWB Posts: 8,082 ✭
    Lint Marks was Karl Marks younger and less politically focused brother. He owned a small shop in Berlin selling celluloid shirt collars.
  • LathamGalLathamGal Posts: 37
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    Here's a nice one on proof dollar.
  • tahoe98tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Lint marks are necessary if you wish to identify the facility at which the coin was linted. >>




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