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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Neal, post: 25869579, member: 43872&quot;]This is, of course, quite true.&nbsp; It is why Full Steps, Full Band Lines, and Full Bell Lines command a premium.&nbsp; But I am not sure it fully explains the flow in ancient coins, as pictured earlier in the thread.&nbsp; These were not generally struck with flat planchets in a collar, but with rounded, even spherical planchets with unlimited outward flow.&nbsp; If there is nothing to restrain the outward flow, there is nothing to create a force to fill the inner designs, like having a 360 degree cud.&nbsp; Yet the inner designs are often the most defined parts of the coin.&nbsp; The flow is still outward, as is obvious from the wear lines around the letters, but the rounded planchets would have had to have flowed at least simultaneously into those high relief portraits or it never would have made it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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