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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;yakpoo, post: 5282559, member: 18157&quot;]Robert Maskell Patterson, the director of the Mint from 1835 to 1851, wrote the following report to President Andrew Jackson in 1837:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;On the 23rd of March last (1836), the first steam coinage in America was executed at this Mint; and the performance of the press, in which the power of the lever is substituted for that of the screw, has answered all our expectations. Since that time, all the copper coins have been struck by this press, and <b>it has been lately used with success for coining half dollars.</b> The workmen are now engaged in making other steam presses; and as these are completed, the coining by human labor be abandoned, and the work that can be executed in...the Mint will be greatly increased.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.fi.edu/history-resources/coin-press" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.fi.edu/history-resources/coin-press" rel="nofollow">https://www.fi.edu/history-resources/coin-press</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It sounds like it was 1837 when they swapped presses for the Half Dollar.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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