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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 486228, member: 66&quot;]I&#039;m not sure why Jazz isshowing us a railroad track.&nbsp; Apparently he doesnt know what a railroad rim partial collar coin looks like.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.alscoins.com/graphics/4512.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Note how far the unreeded portion sticks out beyond the reeded portion.&nbsp; It is called a railroad rim because&nbsp; of the resemblance of the edge of the coin to that of the wheel on a railroad car.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are two railroad car wheels.&nbsp; Note how they have a flat surface (the reeded area on the coin) and then a portion that extends out further.</p><p><img src="http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/photos/2008/06/05/tsb-wheelset2-buckskin.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; The dime in this thread is nothing like this.</p><p><br /></p><p>The pictures of the reverse of the coin shows that it has the bevel from the rim area down to the reeded portion just as I described earlier.&nbsp; This is a normal though not fully struck coin.&nbsp; I just pulled eight dimes out of my pocket and five of them show such beveling on both sides (though not to such an extent as the coin in the thread.)</p><p><br /></p><p>One other thing that could help to create such a coin as in the thread here, is if the collar is wearing out and its diameter is increasing to beyond spec.&nbsp; (Forget about comparing it to another dime visually.&nbsp; An out of spec collar would be only one or two thousandths of an inch too big.&nbsp; It would take a set of precision calipers to determine it.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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