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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 457964, member: 66&quot;]As I have pointed out in the past, the reason for that is the much higher mintages that we produce.&nbsp; The other countries can send their cons through the edging device at a much slower pace with extra pressure giving the machine time to form the letters up fully.&nbsp; We spit ours through at a rate of 17 coins per second to keep up with production.&nbsp; It takes a certai amount of time for metal to move and be formed.&nbsp; In order to keep up the production rate we have had to allow less and less time which is why the relief on our coins has been getting shallower and shallower.&nbsp; There isn&#039;t enough time during the strike for the metal to flow into deeper recesses in the dies.&nbsp; So we make te relief shallower so it desn&#039;t have to flow as far.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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