I've got a question regarding flow lines...

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• BryceM Posts: 11,857 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 13, 2013 3:16AM

  I'd say flow lines. Look at the lettering around "DOLLAR". The lines do not extend up and over the devices where whizzing damage would be the strongest. Whizzing is also frequently almost randomly oriented while these lines are more or less radial in nature.
  
  Nice chopmark too!

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• stealer Posts: 4,035 ✭✭✭✭

  January 13, 2013 3:17AM

  Those aren't whizzing lines or lines resultant from a cleaning. I don't know the technical term however...
  
  I would expect British coinage to have totally different luster style as compared to US coinage.

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• LanceNewmanOCC Posts: 19,999 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 13, 2013 3:18AM

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  i see metal flow and die polishing lines
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• keets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 13, 2013 3:19AM

  you would be able to easily recognize flow lines but you might be confusing "whizzing" with die polish. judging only from what you posted, I'd say whizzing. die polish lines would stop at the lettering and devices; the fields are what get polished and show lines, the devices and lettering on the die are recessed.
  
  hairlines may be the result of handling or packaging and would show on the devices in the high point areas you mentioned.

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• CaptHenway Posts: 32,740 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 13, 2013 3:20AM

  Flow lines.
  
  No flow lines on the head and breasts because of the wear there.

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• LindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 13, 2013 3:24AM

  
  
  << <i>Flow lines.
  
  No flow lines on the head and breasts because of the wear there. >>
  
  
  
  Also indicates it's a AU coin right?

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• jayPem Posts: 4,082 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 13, 2013 3:33AM

  
  
  << <i>I'd say flow lines. Look at the lettering around "DOLLAR". The lines do not extend up and over the devices where whizzing damage would be the strongest. Whizzing is also frequently almost randomly oriented while these lines are more or less radial in nature.
  
  Nice chopmark too! >>
  
  
  
  That's a very good tell...looking inside and outside the D, the metal is all flowing in the same direction. Nothing is pushed up onto the base of the D....
  The amount of flowing metal on the neck and upper body of the figure caught my eye, as these are recessed areas on the die, like Keets said, but somehow the metal flowed across
  this area in a similar way as in the fields. I don't see any die polish though, there are some light scratches/hairlines here and there and a bunch of fine die cracks.
  The pics do show some light rub that I didn't see in hand....AU 58 !

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