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Message:: [QUOTE="coinman0456, post: 747184, member: 18177"]Each coin made by the U.S. Mint for another country was minted to the specifications dictated by the client country. Some of the clients of the U.S.Mint requested to be furnished with planchets to be utilized at their native mints in the coining process,as was the case with Argentina in 1919 and 1920. In the case of the Venezuelan 1 and 2½ Centavosstruck in the Philadelphia Mint in 1876 and 1877,the U.S. Mint sub-contracted out to the Waterbury Mint, owned by the Scovill ManufacturingCompany, to supply planchets for foreign andregular U.S. issues. The Waterbury Mint provide dthe US Mint with many of the planchets for regular U.S. 1¢ and 5¢ pieces from 1888 to 1906.In some cases the client country would manufactureand furnish the dies to the U.S. Mint to strike thecoins, while other countries opted for the U.S. Mintto produce the minting dies and to mint the issues. Athird alternative that was utilized by some client countries, most notably the Dominican Republic,was the usage of a third party mint to produce thedies and then use the U.S. Mint to manufacture the coins. This arrangement led to coins like the 1897 Dominican Republic One Peso struck in 1898 and 1899 by the US mint with dies made by the Paris Mint that bear the “A” mint mark on the reverse near the bottom of the coin. In theory, a foreign coinage issue manufactured by the U.S. Mint could involve four or more parties.[/QUOTE]