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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Fred Weinberg, post: 3548636, member: 86437&quot;]The Schuler presses were first used in Philadelphia</p><p>in 1997, I believe.</p><p><br /></p><p>By 2001, with the exception of Kennedy Halves and</p><p>the Sac/Presidential Dollars, almost all other circulation</p><p>coins were struck with the newer Schuler presses, which</p><p>strikes the coins vertically, instead of the old historical</p><p>horizontal way....so, mis-fed planchets fall down if they</p><p>are mis-fed, instead of (in the vast majority of cases)</p><p>being struck off center or D/S, they drop down before</p><p>the dies come together - but, because they can strike</p><p>coins so fast, in many cases the mis-fed planchets are</p><p>indeed struck as partial collars.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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