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<p>[QUOTE="chip, post: 630440, member: 19122"]Informative post, metal under the pressures of coining can have some interesting reactions, a planchet is uniformly a certain thickness, but that uniform thickness does have some variance, I think that sometimes what is called a weak strike or a worn die sometimes can be a thinner planchet.</p><p> Plus most of our coinage are alloys, mixtures of metals, these metals sometimes are not as uniformly mixed as advertised.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="chip, post: 630440, member: 19122"]Informative post, metal under the pressures of coining can have some interesting reactions, a planchet is uniformly a certain thickness, but that uniform thickness does have some variance, I think that sometimes what is called a weak strike or a worn die sometimes can be a thinner planchet. Plus most of our coinage are alloys, mixtures of metals, these metals sometimes are not as uniformly mixed as advertised.[/QUOTE]
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