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    Help: Is this die retouching?

    I had to play with the lighting to bring out the details and enhance the contrast and hence that is why you see a white finish instead of a mirror like finish on the reliefs of the coin. For those interesting in viewing other photos, here are two other web sites to look at debating the mystery...
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    Help: Is this die retouching?

    Hi mitch, Although I would have liked to take other pictures, I had to return the coin with mystery lines. So, here is a link of someone else who has found a coin with the mystery lines and provided pictures of the entire coin. Hope this will help...
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    Help: Is this die retouching?

    The most frustrating part is not being able to properly describe or show what I am seeing ! Here is a mystery with mixed opinions and I am sorry if my passion is coming on too strong, it is not my intention. So here is a different angle...I will used “mystery lines” for the rest of the reply...
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    Help: Is this die retouching?

    It is a possibility but all coins I saw with lines left behind on the die due to excessive polishing have a rounded surface as shown below. In this case they are perfectly square :confused: (Ex: 1990 nickel showing the end result of excessive polishing within red circle.) From what I am...
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    Help: Is this die retouching?

    The die could have been repaired to fulfill a production quota due to a shortage of working dies. Maybe a mint worker acting on some creative impulses. I do not know. If I can solve this mystery, is it man made or just scratches/scrapes? With proper arguments, next step would be to ask the mint.
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    Help: Is this die retouching?

    At first I though that the modification was done by CNC machine and asked machinist expert the same question. They indicated that such a modification was usually done by a master engraver. I know it was the same punch that hubbed the dies. The punch used had a small defect at the bottom right...
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    Help: Is this die retouching?

    These are two 1992 Canadian Nickels where I am suspecting that the die used to mint the coin on the left was retouched. Coin specialists are telling me that the mint has not retouched/re-engraved dies since the 60's and it is impossible that the parallel lines (you see on the left picture) are...

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