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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 896892, member: 66&quot;]The indentation below the uprights of the letters is called bifurcation and is a result of the striking pressure not allowing the letter to fill completely.&nbsp; The last portion of the letter to fill is that area at the base of the uprights.&nbsp; The metal is trying to move outward radially and want to move outward into the upright before it wants to move upwards to finish filling the die.</p><p><br /></p><p>A good example you can see in the Holmes catalog is on his S-157&#039;s.&nbsp; On his AU-58 the R is weakly bifurcated, the T more strongly and the Y even more so.&nbsp; And on the reverse the ED TATE are all bifurcated especially the ED, and the S is weak.&nbsp; Then look at his later state AU-50 and all of those letters are strong and well formed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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