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Paul Bulgerin Pillar of the Community United States 3098 Posts	Posted 02/05/2022 4:48 pm I came across this French 10 Centimes with these long lines on the reverse. Some of the lines look raised. Is this an error of some sort or just damage? Thanks. Paul Bulgerin Report this Post to the Staff

Spence Moderator United States 34418 Posts	Posted 02/05/2022 4:54 pm @paul, I agree it looks like some lines are raised. Are you sure though that the surface wasn't cut with a really sharp blade and the metal got "smushed" up a bit? Maybe give us a super close-up view of a couple of them? Thx. "If you climb a good tree, you get a push." -----Ghanaian proverb "The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed." -----King Adz Report this Post to the Staff
coaster Pillar of the Community Australia 1364 Posts	Posted 02/05/2022 5:52 pm Quote: ... Some of the lines look raised Do any of the lines appeared to be gouged? Report this Post to the Staff
mrwhatisit Pillar of the Community United States 2955 Posts	Posted 02/05/2022 6:19 pm It to me just has that look of being struck on a nearly shattered die, so I vote more along error. Report this Post to the Staff
Paul Bulgerin Pillar of the Community United States 3098 Posts	Posted 02/05/2022 6:35 pm Thanks for the responses so far. The coin is not mine so this is the only photo I have. Paul Bulgerin Report this Post to the Staff
1847bill Valued Member United States 465 Posts	Posted 02/05/2022 7:55 pm Shattered dies wouldn't produce straight lines. I vote on it being graffiti. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16834 Posts	Posted 02/05/2022 11:29 pm If the lines are raised, then that means that grooves would have had to have been cut into the die. You'd do this if you were cancelling the die, rendering it unfit for further use. You mention "some of the lines look raised". No, Occam's Razor suggests and demands that either all the lines are raised, or all the lines are recessed. The probability of the coin having two different and separate kinds of misfortune happen to it, one causing raised lines and the other causing recessed lines, is quite remote. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
tdziemia Pillar of the Community United States 7947 Posts	Posted 02/09/2022 08:52 am I like the cancelled die suggestion. The lines look raised (except for the two at 1:00 and 2:00 which could be an artifact of the cameral angle), making it a die issue. They are too regular for a shattered die, as pointed out by another poster. That leaves a likely intentional defacing of the die. Report this Post to the Staff
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