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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clawcoins, post: 3448767, member: 77814&quot;]of course you have to *assume* that the Single Squeeze process was rolled out to all the other denominations/mints at various times.&nbsp; Thus it was not immediate for all at the same time.</p><p><br /></p><p>You still had a stock of working dies (hundreds normally made per Mint) and master dies, etc.&nbsp; So one would *assume* they let the stock of existing master to working hubs/dies to deteriorate before they replaced them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Makes no economic sense to replace stuff already stocked, as this method was to help reduce price not throw away already spent money.</p><p><br /></p><p>And who knows, maybe a single squeeze hammer die was used with a regular anvil die.&nbsp; with a new inventory of hundreds of dies with a life of 1 to 3 days, that quite some time until they are replaced with a new die process (excluding still using the existing working hub to create more working dies).</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s an interesting question of when a particular Mint&#039;s press went to SS working dies.&nbsp; I&#039;m assuming the various Mint&#039;s, various presses and anvil vs hammer dies occurred at various times.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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