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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cpm9ball, post: 2232126, member: 24633&quot;]I don&#039;t know who wrote this, but I have a hard time accepting it.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>&quot;The die fill sets and becomes very stiff as it pounds against many planchets.&quot;</b></p><p><br /></p><p>The grease doesn&#039;t set and become very stiff. Coin production doesn&#039;t stop long enough between strikings for this to occur. It becomes compacted and almost as hard as steel from continually striking planchets.</p><p><br /></p><p>This process of grease filling a device doesn&#039;t happen &quot;all at once&quot;. It is a gradual build-up and continual striking of planchets that causes it. It is highly unlikely that this build-up of grease isn&#039;t also impregnated with a small amount of dirt and debris which strengthens it just as small stones strengthen concrete.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>The layer of die fill escapes from its recess, migrates onto the field, and is struck into a planchet, leaving a raised, slightly enlarged version of the adjacent design element.&quot;</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Give me a break! It doesn&#039;t &quot;escape&quot; from its recess. It doesn&#039;t &quot;migrate&quot; onto the field. It falls out of the device onto the planchet in a split-second. How does this compacted grease leave a raised element when it is struck into the field? If this was the case, it would mean that the die does not make full contact with the planchet, and there would be a &quot;crater effect&quot; of planchet metal pushed upward associated with all strikethroughs.</p><p><br /></p><p>It sounds to me like the person who wrote this definition did a lousy job of redefining some other published definition to avoid plagiarizing their work.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll stick to the published definitions of Alan Herbert!</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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