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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mlov43, post: 2653557, member: 16729&quot;]I am attempting to get the name, and function, of a machine that I think is a coining press. </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s the one in this photo:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]587414[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I believe it was a British-made <i>Taylor &amp; Challen</i> &quot;Knuckle-joint&quot; press.&nbsp;&nbsp; These coining presses were supposedly popular at mints all over the world since these presses employed a knuckle-joint action to efficiently strike coins rapidly while simultaneously inserting blanks and ejecting struck pieces.</p><p><br /></p><p>I believe the machine in this photo is similar to this <i>Hordern, Mason &amp; Edwards</i> knuckle press that is shown in an HM&amp;E ad from the 1960s:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]587416[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I am attempting to gather as much information on these machines as I can for a research piece on South Korea&#039;s first coin mint, which went online in 1966.&nbsp; I have some information that the Korean Mint purchased two T&amp;C and two HM&amp;E coining presses to start striking its very first coins that year.&nbsp;&nbsp; From another source, I learned that the Koreans had asked Cincinnati Milling Machines (USA) for technical assistance with installing these machines at their new coin mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is this a knuckle-joint press in that first photo?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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