Adjustment marks or damage?

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  Darkmane Posts: 1,021 ✭

  May 30, 2007 9:45AM

  I'd guess adjustment... but that'd merely be a guess.

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  GoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭

  May 30, 2007 10:01AM

  Damage
  
  they're just scratches. It was common practice throughout much of the 18th and 19th centuries to scratch a coin you received to make sure it was not a counterfeit (in which the scratch would reveal the base metal)

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  fc Posts: 12,805 ✭✭✭

  May 30, 2007 10:16AM

  those scratches do not look like adjustment marks i have seen before.
  so you know my vote.

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  TomB Posts: 23,086 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 30, 2007 10:18AM

  Damage.

  Thomas Bush Numismatics & Numismatic Photography
  
  In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson
  
  

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