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They are called roller lines. Dirt or grease got on the rolling machine wheels and were transfer onto the coin
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Edited by Coinfrog 12/28/2017 5:42 pm
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Quote: They are called roller lines. Dirt or grease got on the rolling machine wheels and were transfer onto the coin To be more exact, it is from the bronze coil from which the blanks are punched. The rollers are used to compress the metal to the proper thickness.
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Quote: To be more exact, it is from the bronze coil from which the blanks are punched. That is more exact! 
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I hope I did not come off too pedantic. 
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Bedrock of the Community
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 with jbuck. Roller Lines from dirty rollers. Often confused for Improper Alloy Mix errors.
Errers and Varietys.
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Pillar of the Community
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I see them on just about every 80 and 81 cent I come across thought it was a woodie first one I found
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In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020 In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020 In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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Valued Member
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thank you very much for all the info. always nice to learn from the pros. hehe! I also just found a 1896 Morgan dollar no mintmark. not rare but still happy with it
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Quote: I see them on just about every 80 and 81 cent I come across thought it was a woodie first one I found I see them a lot on these two years as well. I keep every one (separate from the rest of the copper) for fun. 
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Mrzllewellyn - I'm sorry sir, a what? woodie? what is that? sorry I was checking my prev posts and I just noticed you said woodie.. coin made of wood? lemme check it out
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 im sorry my masters i thought woodies are made of wood. my goodness, I'm so useless sorry
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