2011 P Rutherford Dollar. The Old And The Older.

I am thinking those are scratches and not in the die. Good eye though. The coat line does look a little different, it could just be differences in dies. I would hold onto it. You never know what others might spot on them down the road.

Looks like what they call "bag marks". That term is no longer used as the coin go directly into bins now. But the contact of them hitting each other probably did most of the damage before they were rolled. When you see the coins going into a bin you can see how this can happen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48P7yOBZczQ

Thank for the information about the BAG MARKS. It's something new for me.

Or it more are found a slight gouge into the die making this raise from the surface of your coins.

Clashes usually only happen in the fields. Those Bag Marks are just that, scratches from coming in contact with other coins. The marks on the head are also bag marks/ coin abrasions. Sometimes you will find die file marks on the raised parts of coins but it is usually in the low lying areas like in between hair, etc.. http://www.vamworld.com/Attribution+101 Scroll down on this page I just linked to until you read Die Scratches/Gouges. Here is a good one that shows what die file lines look like, which are usually done to remove a gouge or die clash. http://www.vamworld.com/1921-S+VAM-1B3A

To pick up die file lines you need a camera that has a good macro lens, they are much less prevalent on newer coins but they still exist. I see them a lot on Lincoln Cents.

I would start looking at these things for the edge lettering varieties and Doubled Dies. There is so much hair it is possible there could be many different varieties of doubled dies in these, but they do a much better job these days of not making them than they did back in the day.

The only thing I can see with your pictures that stands out to me is the coat line is curved on one of the coins and not on the other. That could be a die variety but it could just be the lighting when you photographed the coins.

Another thing to think about it that, die file lines, die gouges, die scratches are all in the die and create a raised look on the actual coins the dies make. Die clashes will be a sunken in clashed letter if they are incused in the die and a raised letter if the letters are raised on the die, which is opposite of what the coins have when you look at a finished product. I hope I said that right.

It really takes some studying to understand this stuff. Take the letters of LIBERTY on a Morgan dollar for instance. When the dies are clashed, creating a Clashed E you will see it as a raised E on the reverse under the tail feathers. Just picture the 2 dies, which are opposite of what the coins look like clashing together with no coin between them. http://www.vamworld.com/1889-O+VAM-1A2

Now look at a Clashed In from In God We Trust on the reverse clashing onto an obverse die. It will be sunken in because the letters are incused on the actual die, not the finished product coin. http://www.vamworld.com/1878-P+VAM-41C

I hope I have not confused you or made any errors in my statements. I do hope I have turned you onto Silver Dollars though, because they are the coolest coins to collect if you like to really dig into what is going on with the dies.

Kris

You are welcome Carlos. I am glad you understood it, because after I wrote it I was kind of confusing myself reading it, LOL.

Kris