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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paddy54, post: 2448534, member: 19250&quot;]One has to remember&nbsp; this was 1845 the availability&nbsp; of new punches and tools wasn&#039;t&nbsp; there. Nothing was wasted, and the concerns wasn&#039;t&nbsp; how the job looked but to get the job done. And what was the job? To provide&nbsp; coinage&nbsp; to the masses. No one at that time in vision&nbsp; that some 150 +/-years later that&nbsp; someone&nbsp; would be questioning&nbsp; the who,what where,and why&#039;s&nbsp; numbers&nbsp; were crooked on a coin.</p><p>They&nbsp; were given tools to work with some were better than others and they were used to the best of the ability&nbsp; of the mint worker .</p><p>The mint worker was not a skilled ,individual&nbsp; but more likely&nbsp; someone&nbsp; who learned as he goes.</p><p>And as pointed out in another posting&nbsp; some of the answers&nbsp; to why things were done.... we may never know!</p><p>These were very crude times in manufacturing . As long as the job got done no one question&nbsp; the quality .[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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