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<p>[QUOTE="rascal, post: 1447572, member: 29239"]In a way you are right and in another way you are wrong. when a blank enters the upset mill it get's it's raised up rim on both sides and then it becomes a planchet. when something get's between the planchet and the coin die like say another planchet this pushed the upset rim down when the coin die strikes it. go look at a few struck thru die cap coins and I bet you can find a few without a raised rim. on the uniface coins all of them don't have a raised rim .</p><p><br /></p><p> when two planchets enters the coining chamber at the same time this creates two uniface coins that are completely blank and totally smooth on one side.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="rascal, post: 1447572, member: 29239"]In a way you are right and in another way you are wrong. when a blank enters the upset mill it get's it's raised up rim on both sides and then it becomes a planchet. when something get's between the planchet and the coin die like say another planchet this pushed the upset rim down when the coin die strikes it. go look at a few struck thru die cap coins and I bet you can find a few without a raised rim. on the uniface coins all of them don't have a raised rim . when two planchets enters the coining chamber at the same time this creates two uniface coins that are completely blank and totally smooth on one side.[/QUOTE]
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