Are these lathe lines on this Antietam? Warning: Huge pic!!

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• PerryHall Posts: 46,857 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 7, 2012 10:57PM

  They sure appear to be lathe lines.

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• kryptonitecomics Posts: 9,185 ✭

  January 7, 2012 11:02PM

  Looks like someone polished the coin...perhaps you should sell it too me

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• mozeppa Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭

  January 7, 2012 11:14PM

  i'm not so sure they are.
  
  i had a lincoln cent in ms-68 with lathe lines on it. they look more even like a 45 rpm record.
  (had to be one of the first 10 coins off of the die)
  (you do remember those?...right? .....slightly before 8-track.) what?
  
  my thoughts are: the pressman removed the die to be cleaned...he held it in one hand and rotated it into a wire wheel brush.
  
  my guess is that he had a heavy hand into that brush. (maybe trying to hurry the brush cleaning.)
  and by rotating the die in his hand ... he spun it on the same concentric that the die has creating the lines...in other words he got lucky
  and made a one in a million look to a die face.
  
  either that or its lathe marks that have been eroded and smeared slightly from cleaning....or i'm nuts!

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