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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2819231, member: 112&quot;]Sometimes yes, but far from always. With many retained strike-throughs the object remains above the surface of the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>This because the metal is contained when the planchet is struck. Dies top and bottom and collar all the way around. Now then, if strike pressure is great enough then some metal might escape. But when it does it always escapes in the form of finning because there is nowhere else it can go. And finning always appears as thin, almost foil like, strips of metal along the corner formed by the rim and edge. And if no finning is present then no metal escaped the dies.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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