Posted 05/10/2013 8:02 pm
Under a loupe, it doesn't look like the abrasions associated with a cleaned up clash. Also, if it were a bad enough clash to take that much cleaning up, don't you think there would be some evidence on the obverse? I can't find any on the obverse or anything else on the reverse. Many of the abraded clashes I have seen, you can still see remnants of the clash. There is nothing under the parallel scratches and they are sunk in from the rest of the field.
