wire rim: Slight flange on coins or medals caused by heavy striking pressure, often characteristic on Proof coins. The metal is squeezed up the side of the die faces by the collar die. Sometimes incorrectly called wire edge. See also rim.
wire rim Alternate form of wire edge.
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wire rim: the knife edge caused when metal squeezes between the die and the collar under extreme pressure.
Wire rim - a fine, raised line of metal around the rim of very sharply struck coins
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An effect whereby a thin, wire-like section of the rim of a coin is raised above the rest of the rim along the outside.
Wire Rim
A rim or border of a coin formed into a thin wire-like protrusion, occurring when excess metal being pushed out between the edge of the die and the restraining collar.
Wire rim
Synonym for wire edge.
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954 MCMVII (1907) High Relief. Wire Rim. MS-65 (PCGS). Accompanied by the notation: "From New England out of Stack's original St. Gaudens set of 20s and 10s. Proof edge.
See Also -- knife edge wire rim Wire Edge eagle The 1907 Indian Head eagle for which only 500 coins were struck. Technically, a pattern, this design featured a fine wire rim and surfaces unlike any other United States issue.
The square flat or wire rim is a result of the intense pressure used in striking proof coins. The pressure forced the metal to flow out to the rims, to the limiting confines of the collar die.
If the dies were spaced too closely together, after the metal filled the deepest recesses in the dies and filled the reeding or other areas of the collar, it had to have some place to go, and would either create a wire rim around the coin (a ...
Technically, a pattern, this design featured a fine wire rim and surfaces unlike any other United States issue. The fields and the devices of the die were heavily polished leaving myriad die striations that transferred to the struck coins.
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1907 $20 High Relief, Wire Rim MS69 PCGS. REALIZED: $575,000.
1907 $20 High Relief, Flat Rim PR69 NGC. REALIZED: $534,750.
1933 $10 MS65 PCGS. REALIZED: $517,500.
Some production strikes had a wire rim, others a flat one, and all displayed the date in Roman numerals. But after turning out just 11,250 pieces, Mint technicians substituted new dies with modified, lower relief.
Exact mintage is unknown due to meltings at the Mint in 1907. The Wire Rim and Rolled Edge varieties are rare, quasi-pattern issues.
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Technically a pattern, this design featured a fine wire rim and surfaces that were both satiny and striated. An unknowledgeable numismatist will look at one of these specimens and consider it hairlined or harshly cleaned.
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