So during my unsuccessful hunt for the elusive W Lowell quarter I came across this guy. This would be a tilted partial collar strike correct? There is also some nice MD, most prominent in "North Dakota." Neat to see how the angle of the coin in the collar affected the direction of the MD.
....from the collar - the planchet (sometimes a blank) didn't sit properly in the collar when the dies came down.
Fred . I heard that since the new presses ( schuler ) in 2002, these would be called ( like ) collar strikes . I was told that the new presses spit these out in a different tray, then the regular strike coins . All from the same run, of course ....
The Schuler presses were first used in Philadelphia in 1997, I believe. By 2001, with the exception of Kennedy Halves and the Sac/Presidential Dollars, almost all other circulation coins were struck with the newer Schuler presses, which strikes the coins vertically, instead of the old historical horizontal way....so, mis-fed planchets fall down if they are mis-fed, instead of (in the vast majority of cases) being struck off center or D/S, they drop down before the dies come together - but, because they can strike coins so fast, in many cases the mis-fed planchets are indeed struck as partial collars.
