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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sean Moffatt, post: 2714942, member: 72137&quot;]I would definitely say the ram die was not centered properly with the collar. This would allow the coin material to extrude, wire, or fin (basically squirt) out between the gap of the neck of the ram die and the collar where the gap was greatest from the ram die being off center. Since the coin is a 1991 it was either made on a Schuler MRH 150 which has centering screws for the ram die, or it was made on one of the 4 up Bliss 6K 225 presses, which had no real easily adjustable ram die centering system. The Bliss held 4 sets of dies. There were 2 die blocks on the ram of the press, each held 2 dies each. These presses were somewhat complex in thier set up which made them difficult to align aa w dies had to be aligneg at a time. So in my opinion the cent was probably struck on one of these Bliss presses as the Schulers are easy to adjust. If my memory serves me correctly the Bliss presses were in service until the late 90s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sean[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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