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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tom Maringer, post: 2708707, member: 7033&quot;]Extra metal inside the rim is not wear! It looks like a damaged die to me, probably nearing the end of its useable life. The die was probably withdrawn from use shortly thereafter. Note how the extra metal starts and stops between the S-T-A-T. The die is very weak right there at the rim where a thin raised fin of metal is all that separates the body of the letter from the rim. Those fins are easily broken. Metal flowing outward against the fin puts pressure on it. Could be the result of a slight misalignment of dies resulting in upper die impacting the edge of the collar... or possibly the feed-extraction arms could have been bashing the edge of the lower die due to maladjustment. We see this kind of thing quite a lot on our dies. I&#039;ve got numerous sets of obsolete dies with the fin between the lettering and the rim broken out at the tops of the letters simply from the outward force of the metal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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