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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1222916, member: 66&quot;]Perfectly normal, less than fully struck half dollar.</p><p><br /></p><p>After the blank goes through the upsetting machine to convert it into a planchet, the edge is not perfectly flat up and down and perpendicular to the faces.&nbsp; It may be rounded, or a truncated V shape (A V with the point cut off.)&nbsp; Now when that lands in the coining press and gets struck what happens?&nbsp; The planchet expands outward and makes contact with the collar.&nbsp; What part makes contact first?&nbsp; the center or that cut off point of the V.&nbsp; As the pressure increases the reeds get impressed into that area.&nbsp; As the strike continues that portion pressed against the collar gets broader and broader until it meets the top edge of the rim.&nbsp; On a proof coin it mets in at a nice sharp squared corner.&nbsp; On a fully struck business strike the corner may round over a little.&nbsp; On a less than fully struck coin the trucated point of the V gets broader, but the sides of the V are still there at the end of the strike.&nbsp; Those sides of the V are what the little arrows are pointing to in your second picture.&nbsp; It looks like a beveled area between the reeds, and the rim.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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