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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;yakpoo, post: 1241058, member: 18157&quot;]I&#039;m not saying one way or another because I know very little of the minting process (wish I knew more)...so I would like to take this opportunity to ask a couple of general questions and maybe learn something of the minting process.</p><p><br /></p><p>First, a brief description of something I do know a little about...</p><p><br /></p><p>Years ago I worked as a &quot;pellet weld mechanic&quot; at an electronics manufacturing plant. We used a vibrating bowl with a ramp on the inside wall to hold the pellets. As the bowl vibrated, the pellets would move up the ramp to a plastic chute. There was just enough room for one pellet to enter the chute (length-wise). The pellets would jostle about until one lined itself up and slid down the chute...waiting its turn to be grabbed by a claw and have a wire welded to its backside.</p><p><br /></p><p>If the track became worn, the pellets would get jammed. On very rare occasions (inattentive mechanic) two pellets could go down the chute at the same time and it wasn&#039;t &quot;impossible&quot; for two pellets to go down the track (one on top of the other) and enter the claw exactly lined up and have a wire welded to their collective backsides. I&#039;ve never seen it happen, but it was &quot;possible&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>In SILVERHOARDER&#039;s case, I can&#039;t explain the lack of copper or the difference in weight...that certainly seems suspicious. However, as far as one rim appearing &quot;upset&quot; and the other not, I would think that if two (2) planchets entered the coining chamber perfectly aligned, one might expect the touching rims would get mashed down. Again, I don&#039;t know how this all works and if the collar comes into play, etc, etc. ...but it seems logical that the rims would appear as they do in that particular scenario (assuming that scenario is even possible).</p><p><br /></p><p>...but I have to agree...the Shop Class scenario seems the most plausible (given all the other information).</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh...I guess my general question is...&quot;How DOES that all work?&quot; ...the minting process, I mean.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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