Question about a morgan (link included)...to help me understand

Looking at this Morgan (slabbed PCGS MS66): http://cgi.ebay.com.cob-web.org:8888/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=11979& item=301...
When I look at the photo, it appears to be scratched....do you think that is the slab or the coin? If it is the coin, wouldn`t that keep it from MS66? Is that what it looks like when someone attempts to clean a coin?
I am almost thinking I need to buy a few KNOWN cleaned coins, and dipped coins, so i can try to see this stuff....

If you are, all those parallel lines are actually caused by improper washing/rinsing of the planchets before striking. This was a known problem at the San Francisco mint in 1879. For some reason, photographs exaggerate the lines, they do not look so bad in person.

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1f80 a very bad state with many gouges all of in the 21st century. These planchet problems with 1879-S Morgans are very common. What would the chances be that I had an identical dated coin with the same problem if it wasn`t very common?

Jumping in where I don`t really know what I am talking about. Never stopped me before I always thought that such lines were the result of heavy die polishing due *maybe* to dies clashing and the polishing used to remove any transferred design.

A perhaps more accessible example of this type of streaking occurs in early Lincoln cents- while the streaking in that case is due to improper mixing of the alloy, the basic principle ("discoloration" not being affected by the striking of the planchet) is the same. Also, while this problem is fairly common, it is also easy enough to find 1879-S Morgans without this problem should anyone be looking f
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me a lesson. Though it technically grades 65, I wouldn`t have paid 65 money for it had I known.

In case I didn`t make it perfectly clear in my last post, the processing of the planchets in this case involved causing a streaky discoloration. No matter how much pressure is used, it isn`t going to change the coloration of the planchet. And that was what I was getting at earlier, while the photo makes it look like scracthes, what you are actually seeing is streaky discoloration.
I think I have my coin in one of my safes here. As soon as Sally gets home, I will see if I can find it and take some large images of it.