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briarmentrout Valued Member United States 244 Posts	Posted 02/03/2019 06:53 am Found this really clean '59 at work today... seems to have a TON of die scratches on the reverse... As you all know I'm terrible at identifying DDO / DDR's so I'm here asking for you're opinions.. as always, thank you for all your help Report this Post to the Staff

cookiemonster Pillar of the Community United States 1335 Posts	Posted 02/03/2019 07:51 am looks like it might be lds ,but hard to tell you need a little closer pics . if you go to https://www2.briansvarietycoins.com/ there are some for you to compare to . good luck and happy hunting Report this Post to the Staff
Jim0815 Pillar of the Community United States 5239 Posts	Posted 02/03/2019 08:12 am The only thing that I see might be a little MD and circulation wear. Report this Post to the Staff
TheJman Valued Member United States 123 Posts	Posted 02/03/2019 08:13 am Probably Die Deterioration or polishing with wire brush. "What you are seeing is something the mint called "stoning" of the dies. Sometimes to remove clashmarks they would use an emory stick with coarse abrasives to scour out the marks. Now ideally this would be followed with finer abrasives and eventually polishing with a circular lap to remove all the scratches left by the coarse abrasives. (Polishing out heavy clashmarks with the fine polishing lap would that forever.) Well that didn't always happen, maybe they forgot or were pressed for production and the coarsely abraded dies were put back into service. We call all of these marks coarse, fine, or almost invisible, die polish lines. Although in the early stages they really aren't "polishing"." - http://goccf.com/t/269458 Edited by TheJman 02/03/2019 08:20 am Report this Post to the Staff
John1 Moderator United States 56855 Posts	Posted 02/03/2019 10:30 am I agree with Jim. John1 Report this Post to the Staff
CoinHunter27 Pillar of the Community United States 5887 Posts	Posted 02/03/2019 12:11 pm Die wear and MD. Nice pictures though! -CH27 Collector of U.S. Coins, Varieties, and Colonial Coinage Report this Post to the Staff
Coinfrog Bedrock of the Community United States 94367 Posts	Posted 02/03/2019 12:22 pm All in, probably just a spender. Report this Post to the Staff
coop Bedrock of the Community United States 62064 Posts	Posted 02/03/2019 1:03 pm This coin was cleaned before you got it. Note around the mint mark, the dark grit on that area? Those shows the coin was cleaned. So the fields are not original. Report this Post to the Staff
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