Yes those parallel gouges are all damage. There was a time when planchets would be filed slightly by hand at the mint to bring them into Weight Tolerance, but 1964 is a couple hundred years after then.
"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
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz





















