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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 269828, member: 66&quot;]No. The gunk is hard enough to cause indents in the planchet upon striking, but not in the hardened steel of the dies.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No they can&#039;t, they cause incused areas on the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You also can&#039;t have a dropped letter from the edge because the edge letters are formed by raised features in the die, so they CAN&quot;T fill with grease and drop out.&nbsp; To get a &quot;dropped&quot; letter, an entire letter would have to break off the edge die and then somehow make it&#039;s way back to the coining press.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Twiggs is correct.&nbsp; With a hard enough impact you can get a raised letter in a smooth field, but the flat area of the edge would also create a dent in the field of the coin.&nbsp; Co you would have a &quot;raised&quot; D in an incuse rectangle.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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