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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1319616, member: 66&quot;]I know of nothing that could cause a die face to warp outward and I&#039;ve never seen an example of a coin struck with a die face that was warped outward.&nbsp; Die faces can SINK inward due to improper hardening and the constant pounding against the planchets.&nbsp; This produces what was described in that definition of a bulged die.&nbsp; (The term comes from sloppy language usage in the 19th century where a lot of early US coins were said to have missing central details due to bulged dies.&nbsp; The loss was actually due to the sinking of the die faces but the term &quot;bulged die&quot; stuck.&nbsp; Sometimes they would be called struck with buckled dies which was much closer to being correct.&nbsp; Unfortunately people tend to use bulged and buckled interchangeably.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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