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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3057609, member: 112&quot;]That&#039;s not the right way to say it, but you&#039;ve got the idea. The correct way to phrase it is that the metal in the planchet could not reach the dies because there was not enough metal for it to do so. </p><p><br /></p><p>When a coin is designed the specific portions of the planchet where the metal comes from to create a given portion of the design, and the directions in which that metal flows is all predetermined by the design. With a good design there is enough metal to fill everything, assuming of course that the correct pressure is used and that the dies are correctly spaced and aligned. With a poor design, like Jefferson nickels, there is not enough metal no matter if everything else is prefect.</p><p><br /></p><p>But when there is not enough metal in the planchet to begin with, as is the case with an underweight planchet, everything else can be perfect and you will still end up an again predetermined result. And if anything else is out of spec, like pressure, spacing, or alignment, a different predetermined result will occur.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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