1936 Lincoln Wheat Cent Error Or Post Damage? - Page 2

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mcrespo1 New Member United States 39 Posts	Posted 08/24/2007 8:11 pm Yes thanks to all and especially coppercoins I am now educated on the subject of "DIES" and "DIE HUBS", hence the negative effect it has on the coin. Dies will have a positive effect and Hubs will have a negative effect on the finished coin. Mark Report this Post to the Staff
coppercoins Pillar of the Community United States 7629 Posts	Posted 08/25/2007 4:20 pm Yes thanks to all and especially coppercoins I am now educated on the subject of "DIES" and "DIE HUBS", hence the negative effect it has on the coin. Dies will have a positive effect and Hubs will have a negative effect on the finished coin. Mark None of this is true. Hubs make dies, dies make coins. Hubs do not make coins. Oh...and there is no such thing as "die hubs". Hubs look like the finished coin and make their impression on the die so it will be reversed. Dies, in turn, make their impression on the coins effectively turning the design back around forward. Edited by coppercoins 08/25/2007 4:44 pm Report this Post to the Staff
mcrespo1 New Member United States 39 Posts	Posted 08/25/2007 6:49 pm Yes I fully understand, I may have got my negative and positive reversed in my post, but I do understand the process now. A depression in the coin is caused by the hub and a raised area is caused by the die. But thanks again for the clarification and for all of your help. Mark Report this Post to the Staff
tights24 Pillar of the Community United States 2254 Posts	Posted 08/25/2007 9:11 pm mcrespo1, I'm pretty sure you still have it wrong. If you read carefully, you will see where you are making the mistake. Bottom line is a hub does not strike a coin. A hub is used to make a die, and the die is placed in the "machine" to make/stamp/press the coin. The hub is only used to make the dies themselves. Hope this helps. Report this Post to the Staff
mcrespo1 New Member United States 39 Posts	Posted 08/25/2007 10:24 pm I fully understand that the hub makes dies and the die strikes coins. It's not that complicated. Report this Post to the Staff
mcrespo1 New Member United States 39 Posts	Posted 08/25/2007 10:28 pm Bottom line is that the hub was the root cause of this error, because the hub had an defect on it that made the die that created the error on the coin. Mark Report this Post to the Staff
coppercoins Pillar of the Community United States 7629 Posts	Posted 08/26/2007 03:51 am Yes, that much is correct. The problem was on the hub. Being that it was on the hub, hundreds of thousands to hundreds of millions of coins would have the same effective problem, thus making them valueless as errors. Report this Post to the Staff
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