clashed dies; mint errors in the 19th century

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• airplanenut Posts: 22,683 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 10, 2003 1:05PM

  By the mid-1800s, there were presses using pendulums to lift and drop the dies, and other mechanisms to feed planchets automatically... no one had to watch closely... since the technology was still very crude, it was easy for a planchet to not be fed.
  
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• Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭

  February 10, 2003 11:04PM

  The mint was experimenting with simple automatic planchet feeders back in the 1790's. And clashed dies are still happening today in the 21st century. In fact with the new presses that strike horizontally it would not surprise me to start seeing an increase in the number of clashed die coins since every time the planchet doesn't seat properly in the collar gravity makes it fall away leaving the potential for a die clash.

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