Andy- I've been looking at several of my Paulson chips and have noticed that a quite a few of them have identical digs in the exact same position on the inlays ... which would lead me to believe that it has something to do with the application of the inlays themselves. To my layman's eyes, it's not a matter of Paulson pulling the affected chips off the assembly line as a quality control measure, but one of fixing the machinery problem that is causing the digs and gouges on the inlays.