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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 5146003, member: 105098&quot;]Hi Mumm13, welcome!</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the scoop. all S mintmarked proof presidential dollar coins are struck one at a time in a one step process with a 3 segmented collar. they will have three lines on them, also the lettering always is oriented the same way </p><p><br /></p><p>Business strike presidential dollar coins are run through an edge lettering machine, and the lettering can be orientated facing the front or the back of the coin. the coin is struck then they are&quot;rolled&quot; through the machine. it&#039;s 2 steps, these don&#039;t have lines on them because there is no collar just a long die. The business strikes are done that way for speed, while the proof coins are done in the single step for a better finished product.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 3 segmented collar die for the proof version with the S mintmark looks like this:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1207904[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The business Strike edge lettering die looks like this, this is one half there&#039;s a blank half also the coins are forced through it with pressure and that&#039;s how they put the edge letting on the P and D mintmark presidential dollar coins.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1207905[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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