Cleaned or Polishing lines more photos added
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They look like polishing lines to me but I'm no expert.
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Looks like cleaning lines to me.
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Hard to tell in a picture. Best is to use a loupe and see if the lines are raised or incuse. If they are raised then die polish, otherwise cleaning.
Seems to only be on the fields.
That was my thought too. Cleaning would leave scratches all over, correct?
It depends on how it was cleaned. The obverse marks sure look like a wipe but the reverse less so. But the loupe test is the best test.
Don't die polish lines only go in one direction?
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This is a PL from CoinFacts. There are Polish lines going in different directions.
I’m pretty sure that the vertical lines on the reverse are die polish lines, which aren’t especially unusual on 78-S dollars. I’m uncertain about the other lines.
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I would think that the person polishing the die would be able to polish in any direction they wanted to. So to say it can only be in one direction would not be correct IMO. They look like die polish lines to me.
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Honestly looks like both.
The lines under and left of her chin look like a wipe.
Might be a little of both.
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Looks like intentional die scratches to me. IMO.
What are intentional vs unitentional die scratches?
Intentional Die Abrasion:
Heavy Die Scratches
Definition: Die scratches are fine lines left in the die face by intentional or accidental die abrasion. Die scratches produced by intentional die abrasion usually travel in many different directions.
Now I see them on the cheek. Starting to lean towards cleaning.
There are a ton of die polish lines on both sides of the coin, but there are also slide marks on Ms. Liberty's cheek. These are not in the same direction as the obverse die polish lines and are much less obvious. The few stray lines in front of Ms. Liberty's portrait may or may not be die polish lines.
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Those are definitely die polish lines in the fields.
Die polish lines.
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I would say - just based on the pictures - mainly die polish lines.... with some lines due to either cleaning or handling...Cheers, RickO
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Die polish and dings.
Looks like die polish to me.
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have a very dumb question because I have NO idea:
why would they continue using these obviously scratched up dies ???
They must have known what the end product would look like ???
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Die polishing lines.
"Why would they continue using these obviously scratched up dies ???"
"They must have known what the end product would look like ???"
Dies were for business strike coins not collector coins.
You could ask the same thing about cracked dies.
They wanted to get every dollar from every die.
like many have said, it looks like the die(s) were well polished and then the coin was cleaned.