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Old 01-19-2009, 01:40 AM   #8 (permalink)
greeneserrors
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Originally Posted by foundinrolls View Post
Over the years, there have been major changes in the process. In 2008, the Mint "mothballed" The Janvier reducing machine. So that information was correct in the past but it is now obsolete.

Images are now digitally scanned and essentially, a Master hub is laser cut by computer and can be done from a scanned image.

Thanks,
Bill
Hey Bill,

I heard this was in the works, didn't know it was being used yet. Thanks for the correction!

Ryan
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