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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clawcoins, post: 3333902, member: 77814&quot;]Let&#039;s take it another simplified step.</p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s say you make coins.</p><p>You start with a Perfect Die.&nbsp; The image is PERFECT for the first, #1 stamped coins.&nbsp; Let&#039;s say the life of that die ends up being 10,000.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you put all those 10,000 coins in a box you could technically put them in order from #1 to #10,000 all due to slight deterioration of the die (like that car tire wear).&nbsp; If they had a serial number and you didn&#039;t look at it you&#039;d be somewhat close.</p><p><br /></p><p>As the die gets older you notice that the Mint Mark is getting really shallow around 9,250.&nbsp; So you stop and you Repunch the Mint Mark but slightly off.&nbsp; Now you have a RPM with a shifted RPM.</p><p><br /></p><p>As you continue you start getting die cracks at 9,500; then some die chips at 9,750; then your start having chunks fall off such as a large Cud at 9,990.&nbsp; You then stop at 10,000 as the die just has that large cud that totally makes it worthless as a coin for commerce.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]883278[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]883279[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>So now you throw away that die and as many of the Cuds as you can find, and start all over again with a new die.</p><p><br /></p><p>that process, just like wearing out a tire, starts all over again as you just got new tires, or new dies.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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