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<p>[QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 4889226, member: 105098"]Business strike "golden" dollar coins are struck in a two step process. the coin is struck with a blank retaining collar in the press, then it is run through the edge lettering machine under pressure and rolled over the edge lettering die, there are no seams on the business strikes. this is done for speed.</p><p>The die looks like this:</p><p><a href="http://www.coinnews.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Dollar-Coin-Edge-Letter-Segment.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinnews.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Dollar-Coin-Edge-Letter-Segment.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://www.coinnews.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Dollar-Coin-Edge-Letter-Segment-510x256.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Proof strike "golden" dollar coins are struck with a one step process, the collar in the press has 3 segments, each segment leave a line where they meet. </p><p>I will update if I can find a picture of how this collar die set up looks. I know i've seen it, but can't find it right now. </p><p><br /></p><p>the seams on your proof coin are normal for proofs, there is 3 of them from where the the segments meet.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 4889226, member: 105098"]Business strike "golden" dollar coins are struck in a two step process. the coin is struck with a blank retaining collar in the press, then it is run through the edge lettering machine under pressure and rolled over the edge lettering die, there are no seams on the business strikes. this is done for speed. The die looks like this: [URL='http://www.coinnews.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Dollar-Coin-Edge-Letter-Segment.jpg'][IMG]https://www.coinnews.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Dollar-Coin-Edge-Letter-Segment-510x256.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Proof strike "golden" dollar coins are struck with a one step process, the collar in the press has 3 segments, each segment leave a line where they meet. I will update if I can find a picture of how this collar die set up looks. I know i've seen it, but can't find it right now. the seams on your proof coin are normal for proofs, there is 3 of them from where the the segments meet.[/QUOTE]
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