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<p>[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 1447469, member: 66"]Yes the mint does like low relief and for the reason you mention. Also because low relief means the metal doesn't have to flow as far to get into the die. This means higher speeds are possible. A high speed press with a higer relief die means that the metal doesn't have enough time to flow into the deeper recesses of the die and you get flat weak strikes with missing detail.</p><p><br /></p><p>And the Walking Liberty half dollar is NOT a low relief coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>One problem of trying to go back to classical type designs is if you took something like the mercury dime and lowered the relief and simplified the details enough to make it coinable on todays high speed presses it would not be the beautiful design we love today. (Spaghetti feathers?)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 1447469, member: 66"]Yes the mint does like low relief and for the reason you mention. Also because low relief means the metal doesn't have to flow as far to get into the die. This means higher speeds are possible. A high speed press with a higer relief die means that the metal doesn't have enough time to flow into the deeper recesses of the die and you get flat weak strikes with missing detail. And the Walking Liberty half dollar is NOT a low relief coin. One problem of trying to go back to classical type designs is if you took something like the mercury dime and lowered the relief and simplified the details enough to make it coinable on todays high speed presses it would not be the beautiful design we love today. (Spaghetti feathers?)[/QUOTE]
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