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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 3643591, member: 101855&quot;]Here is a video that shows how the Castaing machine worked, which imparted the edge devices on the coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]cLIlTetETG0[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>The half cents had &quot;Two hundred for a dollar&quot; on the edge.</p><p><br /></p><p>The large cents had &quot;vines and bars&quot; on the Chain Cents and all but the last sub vareity of the Wreath Cents. After that it was &quot;One hundred for a dollar.&quot; There are photos of the edge devices at the beginning of the large cent chapter in later editions of &quot;The Red Book.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The half dollars read, &quot;Fifty cents or half dollar,&quot; and the dollars read, Hundred cents, one dollar or unit.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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