What Are These Marks Called?

okay now you guys are just confusing me!

ok found out that coinmasters was correct.
found this on coinhelp -

People call dimes, quarters, half dollars and large dollars "Railroad" rims when they're partial collar strike and some of he edge reeding is struck out of place.



twistedt

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Just wanted to make sure I heard you correctly. lol
The "Reeding" on the face of your coin is from contact with the reeded edge of other coins, and not necessarily, but can be associated with "bag marks".
While we're on the subject of reeded coins, I'll tell you how they came about (not that I personally was there). In days of old, somewhere in Europe (I think Britain), they started making coins out of silver with no reeding. This became barter that required no weighing. After a while the merchants and some of the people started shaving off little chunks of the white metal to accumulate it, as it could still be weighed also. The government got wise, and started making coins with reeded edges. Any coin missing even one reed had to be weighed.
The term "Railroad Tracks" does indeed refer to the line on the edge of a Partial Collar.