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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2683150, member: 112&quot;]An &quot;even tilting&quot;, as in equal tilted angle, all the way around ? No, it wouldn&#039;t, but it would be slightly angled all the way around, slightly increasing from low point to high point in each direction. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No, but I will grant you that the coin being pushed out of the collar did have an effect. If the collar is tilted slightly, then part of the bottom edge of the planchet is not within the collar when the coin is struck, resulting in a partially flat edge. But when the coin is pushed out of the collar, the part of the edge that was not within the collar if forced through the reeded collar, thus cutting the reeds into that part of the edge, and in alignment with what was formed by the strike.</p><p><br /></p><p>Picture what would happen Michael. You have 2 objects (the dies) with a face planes that are parallel to each other. The 3rd object, the reeded collar, is tilted slightly, not in the same plane. The collar has a high side and a low side. On the low side the reeding is fully formed at strike, but slightly angled. But on the high side, the reeding is only formed on the top half of the edge of the coin, because the bottom half of the edge of the coin is out of the collar. Now the dies separate, and the rev die pushes the coin straight up, just like you said. But because part of the edge was not within the collar at strike, that part of the edge is now slightly wider than the opening in the collar. And because part of the edge is already in the collar, the wider part that is not is then forced through, and held in alignment by the reeding on the top half, and literally cutting the rest of the reeding on the bottom half of the edge.</p><p><br /></p><p>You see, the reeding on the unreeded portion can&#039;t be mangled by the coin being pushed out of the collar because the reeding isn&#039;t even there yet to be mangled. It is only formed by the coin being pushed out of the collar. And the rest of the reeding on the coin isn&#039;t mangled either because it&#039;s in alignment with the reeding of the collar. So it&#039;s just pushed out as it normally is.</p><p><br /></p><p>The bottom line of it all is that the only way the reeding can be angled is if the collar is tilted slightly. For if the collar is straight then the reeding will be straight.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now if you still want to disagree with this, OK. But tell me then, how IS the reeding angled ? And no, don&#039;t try and tell me that it was done by a bezel because there is no way that bezel being closed around a coin can exert enough force to angle the reeding like that. And besides that, the inside edges of bezels are smooth, not reeded, so even if a bezel is closed by a machine, the smooth edge of the inside of the bezel can&#039;t angle the reeding either.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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