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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3654443, member: 112&quot;]Well, you can believe I am wrong if you want but here&#039;s the thing. Besides wear, the one and only way that the surface of the letters can ever be flat and smooth is if they come into contact with the flat, smooth surface of the die. And if they do that, then they are by definition not weakly struck.</p><p><br /></p><p>And if they do not come into contact with the flat, smooth surface of the die - then they will absolutely have that rough and bumpy texture. </p><p><br /></p><p>The reason this is so is because of the nature of the metal as it is being struck. When the metal is being pushed into the recesses of the die, the surface of that metal does not, cannot, maintain the flat surface of the planchet. In other words it cannot be pushed into the recesses in one continuous and flat plane because the forces being applied to that metal are not applied over the entire area at the exact same moment. Portions of the area are being pushed sooner, faster, than other adjoining areas. And it is this unequally applied (in time) pressure that causes and creates the rough, bumpy texture to weakly struck areas of the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ya see, both of these things are absolutes governed by the laws of physics - you should understand that. If the metal comes into contact with the flat surface of the die, then it is going to be flat and smooth, the same as the die. And by definition it cannot be weakly struck if it does come into contact with the die.</p><p><br /></p><p>And the metal cannot be pushed in a smooth and flat continuous plane across its entirety because the pressure is not applied equally over the entire surface at exactly the same moment or at exactly the same amount of pressure.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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