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<p>[QUOTE="Clawcoins, post: 3792478, member: 77814"]Because it looks like PMD.</p><p><br /></p><p>When something is minted it takes shape of the die as the die is 3 dimensional. The die is a REVERSE image of the coin. So where the coin is raised, the die is incused, and vice versa. This allows the metal to flow in to the shape/design element, or to be pushed away in the flat areas into a design element.</p><p><br /></p><p>When you see something on your coin where a shape is shifted, flattened etc. ... then that is NOT the shape of the die, thus it was done afterwards.</p><p><br /></p><p>Think of a cookie cutter.</p><p>When you cut a cookie shape, then if you flatten the cookie some, how do you determine it was flattened after you cut it versus during cutting it?</p><p><br /></p><p>or if you like cars, a cars hood is stamped such as a coin, except in a really big press.</p><p>If you crash that car into a tree and it's hood shape is changed, how you know it was crashed versus just accidentally stamped that way?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Clawcoins, post: 3792478, member: 77814"]Because it looks like PMD. When something is minted it takes shape of the die as the die is 3 dimensional. The die is a REVERSE image of the coin. So where the coin is raised, the die is incused, and vice versa. This allows the metal to flow in to the shape/design element, or to be pushed away in the flat areas into a design element. When you see something on your coin where a shape is shifted, flattened etc. ... then that is NOT the shape of the die, thus it was done afterwards. Think of a cookie cutter. When you cut a cookie shape, then if you flatten the cookie some, how do you determine it was flattened after you cut it versus during cutting it? or if you like cars, a cars hood is stamped such as a coin, except in a really big press. If you crash that car into a tree and it's hood shape is changed, how you know it was crashed versus just accidentally stamped that way?[/QUOTE]
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