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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 3473972, member: 66&quot;]Well that mark had to be made post strike.&nbsp; You can see on the left edge of the mark how the metal has been pushed up higher than the field.&nbsp; If it was pre strike the edge would be no higher than the surrounding field and the mark would have pretty well have been wiped out completely by the strike.</p><p><br /></p><p>So what would the point be to doing a Rockwell hardness test on the coin after it has been struck?&nbsp; I might see a hardness strist pre strike to make sure the planchets had been annealed properly before they were sent to the press, but that typically isn&#039;t the case with the zinc cents anyway.&nbsp; You might do one on a die, but that would create a raised lump on the coin so the die wouldn&#039;t be used anyway.&nbsp; If you did a test on a die I don&#039;t think you would do it on the die face you would do it on the body of the die.&nbsp; Or in the case of a die blank pre hubbing you would do it toward the edge where it would be removed by the lathe post hubbing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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