Coin dies.

I have never seen an actual coin die...pics yes...does anyone know where dies go when they are done? I'm sure they are stored somewhere in the Treasury??

 

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I think by law they have to be destroyed

 

Sometimes they are canceled and offered for sale. Older ones I've seen have a heavy X though the face. Some of the ones offered from the state quarter program were completely defaced. So you got a blank die.and their word that it was used on a certain coin.

 

Well you know if the government said it, it has to be true.


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Most get ground down to nothing then sold as novelty items.

 

Oh, wow - just noticed, that was post #


I know - get a life - LOL!!!
Sorry Fish for changing your thread - won't happen again!

 

They are out in the market and you can buy them. If I remember, a scrap dealer found a bunch of them too and they were sold into the numismatic market. I have several different coin and token dies. Token dies are usually cheaper (still?) and are not usually cancelled. IMO, The "X" cancelled Proof dies are the top of the line. Wish I had one.

As for Treasury storage. I saw a "die closet" at the Philadelphia Mint in the 1970's. If I remember correctly, the Secret Service had some dies and off metal die trials on display in a case at one office in DC.

 

What would an Obverse & Reverse die with an X prevent someone filling in the X with a hard weld then machining it on a CNC tooling center - Well, of course not counting the 35 years behind bars thing!!

 

The mint used to offer cancelled State Quarter dies back early in the program. Then, they suddenly stopped. Methinks shenanigans was afoot.

 

I see now that the blanks are originally turned on a lathe for concentricity - they just put them back into a lathe and turn OFF the details!!

 

I think, back then, they were just canceling the dies with a big fat 'X' and leaving much of the detail.

 

When a coin dies they bury it, and then @paddyman98 goes to work with his metal detector.

Chris

 

Chris? You been nippin' at the nectar?

 

I quit smoking and drinking at the same time. Now, my life is so boring that I have to act stupid to have something to laugh about.

Chris

 

Fred Weinberg has about 6 for sale on his website. Interesting notes for each one to read.
I want to share this webpage with you - http://www.fredweinberg.com/woocomm...ch-in/product/cat-in/all/search-other/product

 

They deface them and remelt them to make new dies. On a few occasions the will deface some and sell as a set with a first coin. I know because i work there.

 

I had an acquaintance that retired from the Philly Mint, and he made the die punch for these.......



Chris

 

Why deface them? Don't matter a hoot when you melt them........

 

Ken ,
Dads last job after 47 years with the Federal Reserve he issued and destroyed currency for the Fed . In those days they would cut it in half length wise burn one half one day and the other was burned at a later date. When burnt the paper looked like coal being burnt. And of course the ashes were sifted, even though the temperature was about the same as used for cremation .

 

Melt them?? It would take a foundry furnace at 2700 degrees to melt them worthless dies!