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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collecting Nut, post: 2233955, member: 74863&quot;]The US Mint uses high speed processing machines. For a 1987-D, the coin you posted, just under 5 billion pennies were minted. If the Mint had 10 penny coin presses running at the same time, each press would mint 500 million pennies. Do the math. That&#039;s a lot of cents. The dies are cleaned from time to time. Sometimes, they need to be replaced.</p><p><br /></p><p>Have you ever pulled up the Mint&#039;s web page? <a href="http://www.usmint.gov" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.usmint.gov" rel="nofollow">www.usmint.gov</a> Try it. Clink on the tab that says LEARN. You can take a virtual tour of the mint. It explains the minting process. It even shows how a die is made and what it looks like.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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