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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 3623038, member: 82322&quot;]I call them &quot;flow lines&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>See <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/moonmoth/halo_coins.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/moonmoth/halo_coins.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.forumancientcoins.com/moonmoth/halo_coins.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The first coins struck by the die do not have this feature, no matter how hot the coin is or how hard it was struck.</p><p><br /></p><p>The dies themselves heat up and soften.&nbsp; The metal on the coins does flow a bit, which gradually wears down the die, mostly in the places where the coin metal flows.</p><p><br /></p><p>The last coin struck by the die will have these marks, even if the flan was very cold and the coin was softly struck.</p><p><br /></p><p>That is the theory, I&#039;ve not seen actual die studies showing the progression of these lines.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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