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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;coinjester, post: 528507, member: 6139&quot;]I&#039;ll go with GDJMSP on his theory. However, I still believe that a piece of hard die fill could still damage a die. Let&#039;s say you drive a 4,000 lb vehicle on 7 inches of ice, all is well. </p><p>Now take that same 4,000 lb vehicle, turn it on it&#039;s bumper and place it on the ice. What&#039;s going to happen, it&#039;s going to either severly crack the ice, or go through. Whereas before when it was on all four wheels, the weight displacement was distributed more evenly accross the ice instead of being concentrated in such a small area as when it was balanced on its bumper.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This same theory can be applied to coin minting. The planchet would represent the 4,000 lb vehicle with even weight distribution and not causing harm to the die, whereas the peice of hard debris sitting on a planchet would cause extermely high pressure on that point of the die thus causing damage to it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Again:</p><p><br /></p><p>JMO[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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