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Message:: [QUOTE="yakpoo, post: 1245308, member: 18157"]Here's a couple of dimes I found while roll searching. They're 1946-s dimes and I found eight (8) of these in one roll. The missing details in the letters and oak leaves are likely due to a grease-filled die, but I can't understand how the grease stays in one place under all that pressure. You can probably see that part of the "L" all of the "U" and part of the "R" in PLURIBUS is missing. I understand that the grease in the "U" may not have anywhere to go, but I would expect the grease to push out more evenly into the "L" and "R". Also, the upper most Oak leaf cluster is supposed to have three (3) leaves; these dimes only have two (2)...you can barely see the remnant of third leaf at the base. The next Oak leave down to the right has half the leaf missing. I'm not trying to make the argument that these aren't the result of a grease-filled die, I'm just trying to understand how the grease can stay in one place (under all that pressure) and not move about...even after multiple strikes. <img src="http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv10/Yakpoo/test/test1/1946s.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]