1987 Silver Eagle With Die Polishing Marks All Over The Reverse Fields

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MrPink2018 Pillar of the Community United States 2463 Posts	Posted 01/20/2018 7:10 pm so I bought this '87 silver eagle somewhere, sometime in the last year or two... not sure where... didn't notice til months & months after that the coin's reverse fields are full of scritchy-scratchy die polishing marks, going in all directions. it's a wonder I saw it to begin with. I ended up buying another '87 to compare them. i probably would have just let it slide without investigation, but some time ago a friend gave me an 1879-S Morgan dollar with the same marks on the obverse, and it turned out to be a VAM-18A (doubled date, S tilted left, obverse polishing lines). it was my seeing those obverse polishing lines and remembering them. (that morgan is considerably gorgeous) so when I saw the polishing lines on the silver eagle, I figured I better investigate. question: how common an occurrence is this particular fudge on a silver eagle? this would be the first one i've seen and owned. Report this Post to the Staff

moxking Rest in Peace United States 17900 Posts	Posted 01/20/2018 8:08 pm Are the lines raised above the fields. If so it is as you suspect. Not common for ASE but not scarce or rare. If the TPG gives it a named error, that would definitely increase the value. Report this Post to the Staff
MrPink2018 Pillar of the Community United States 2463 Posts	Posted 01/20/2018 10:22 pm they are way too tiny/thin for me to determine that. no scratches on the devices, only the fields, only on the reverse. it looks just like the polishing marks I see on the morgan I mentioned. Report this Post to the Staff
MrPink2018 Pillar of the Community United States 2463 Posts	Posted 01/20/2018 10:23 pm until this coin came along I had never observed these kinds of polishing marks on a silver eagle. Edited by MrPink2018 01/21/2018 04:28 am Report this Post to the Staff
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