Do 1991 Business Strike 50-Cents Have A Lined Background?

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Altaira Pillar of the Community Canada 2519 Posts	Posted 06/19/2014 9:24 pm Picked up six 50 cent coins today: 3x 2002, 1991, 1976, and 1968. I noticed that the background of the 1991 has vertical lines on it. I don't have one close enough in date to compare it to. The two other DP portraits I have are from 1995 and 2000, they don't have the lines. Is this just a normal business strike? Lines on toonies always throw me off, and I don't know what "brilliant relief" looks like. You can see it looking straight, but it's best when you look at it sideways. Report this Post to the Staff

DBM Pillar of the Community Canada 9864 Posts	Posted 06/19/2014 9:43 pm Got a pic of the obverse side please? Brilliant relief means shiny and mirrorlike. Parallel lines as a finish for specimen coins didn't begin 'til about '96. "Dipping" is not considered cleaning... -from PCGS website Report this Post to the Staff
Altaira Pillar of the Community Canada 2519 Posts	Posted 06/19/2014 10:12 pm Here's a pic of the obverse. It's similar to the reverse, it has lines on the background but not on the relief. The queen does look shiny, but my two comparison coins are not in as good condition as this, they look like they have switched hands a few times through the bank while being carried around loose. Before '96, what are specimen finishes like? Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10458 Posts	Posted 06/20/2014 07:55 am Yours is a business strike, struck with with freshly polished dies. "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
Altaira Pillar of the Community Canada 2519 Posts	Posted 06/20/2014 10:51 pm So die polish do not go in all directions such as a mix of vertical and horizontal? I have a 1974 nickel with these kind of mixed lines and I thought that this was die polish. Report this Post to the Staff
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