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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paddy54, post: 3367408, member: 19250&quot;]No he believed if he cut the letters deeper the die would last longer, however until this time peroid all coins were struck in soft medals, gold, silver ,and copper.</p><p>Nickel even allowed with copper was extremely hard to strike.</p><p>Look at shield nickels, nickel three cent pieces, die cracks, cuds, clashes galore!</p><p>Est. die life of a shield nickel less than 10,000 strikes have a look at early shields and do the math of just how many&nbsp; matched pairs it took to mint 1868 quotas needed .[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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