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What Is Up With The Strike Depth And Centering Of Common Dimes?

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Been sorting out dimes by decades and I just keep seeing soooo much variation in how they're struck. I didn't pull the best examples as I saw them... just started getting towards the end of sorting them and thought I'd ask the community.

First example is a very deeply struck example... the rim is quite high in comparison to most... on both sides...

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Then there are some with hardly any visible rim at all... here's a quick example... the rim that is present is only on part of the coin and the edges are rounded instead of crisp and close to a 90 degree angle...

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And here are a few examples of how they are struck obviously off center or showing little rim...

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That 1974 on the corner looks like it's got a limitation peeling issue as well...

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So, I guess my question is... why are dimes minted so poorly compared to other coins?

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Another fine example of something funky...

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Its small size makes the slightest shift from spec seem extreme.
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Thanks for the pics Fireball!

Keep sharing....
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In my last picture, what causes the double edge on the upper left... it only happens to some offset dimes I see and not all... others are just a perfectly smooth offset rim... those two examples are doubled...
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The outside rim is created when the planchet is run through a milling machine. The inside edge is created because the die hit the planchet off-center.
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Some years it was Die Deterioration because they were cheaping out. Some years it's hard to find a good strike at all in business strikes.
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Some time ago I used to pull many of those out and put in 2x2 flips. Was for my error collection. Then I noticed that if I kept this up I'd have so many there would be no room for me in my house so I not only stopped saving those, I put many back in circulation.
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