Do You Know why new clad designs will never messure up???

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• cladking Posts: 29,856 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 30, 2002 2:20AM

  The original clads were struck with the same relief dies as the last of the silver.
  The mint lowered the relief over many years to save money on dies and no one
  complained until the last few years. There are no physical or political reasons
  that the relief can't be raised back to where it was if the mint comes up with the
  money and capacity to do it. -eliminate the cent.

  tempus fugit extra philosophiam.

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• IndianHeadMan Posts: 826 ✭

  August 30, 2002 2:38AM

  how much does a coin stamping machine cost? It shouldn't cost that much reletively for the Mint to add capasity. I don't buy that arguement.

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• cladking Posts: 29,856 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 30, 2002 3:11AM

  The mint currently has several bottlenecks in their production. Right now their
  biggest is in the die shop. They do not currently have the capacity to significantly
  increase their die making production. There is also a lack of physical space at both
  the Philly and Denver mints right now. The mints just don't have the space to in-
  stall a significantly larger number of presses. The cost of the dies and presses is
  small compared to the profit the mint makes on coins, but without a realignment
  of the coins they make or a new mint facility there will be no large improvement in
  the relief or the quality of the coins they produce. There probably are political im-
  pediments to the construction of a new mint. Some quality improvements are pro-
  bably possible otherwise and would seem to be underway.

  tempus fugit extra philosophiam.

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• dorkkarl Posts: 12,691 ✭✭✭

  August 30, 2002 3:25AM

  that's why they should contract all clad coins out to get colorized. that would really bring out all the attractive deatails.
  
  K S

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