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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rascal, post: 1316537, member: 29239&quot;]You about have it figured out but still a little off track. you said</p><p>{in the case of a capped die the next coins are not struck thru } this is wrong IMO. this would be called a struck thru die cap. what you are having a hard time with is the fact that the longer a die cap stays on the coin die the more it wears away. eventually it will totally disingerate as the pieces keeps falling off and out of the die. then the die is clean and free again. sometimes these pieces of the worn away die cap can fall out of the recesses of the coin die and become struck into the next planchet and looks the same as dropped letters or dropped die details. this is why we sometimes find a coin that looks almost completely smooth is the fact that all is left of the die cap is what is up inside of the die recesses and has them filled in. a capped die fills in the details of coin dies just like other junk does.</p><p><br /></p><p>have you ever seen a filled in die coin ? I have a few here somewhere.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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